I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets oneself be tamed...

Old bureaucrat, my companion here present, no man ever opened an escape route for you, and you are not to blame. You built peace for yourself by blocking up every chink of light, as termites do. You rolled yourself into your ball of bourgeois security, your routines, the stifling rituals of your provincial existence, you built your humble rampart against winds and tides and stars. You have no wish to ponder great questions, you had enough trouble suppressing awareness of your human condition. You do not dwell on a wandering planet, you ask yourself no unanswerable questions

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli.
It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

He spoke again: “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.