"Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to yo… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

Tu seras toujours mon ami. Tu auras envie de rire avec moi.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.