← When I find one who seems a bit different from the others, I try the experiment of showing them my drawing number 1, which I’ve always kept. I want to know if they really understand anything. 🔊✎
← But putting together words which he let fall by chance, I gradually managed to figure it out. 🔊✎
← Then he added: “So you’re from the sky too! Which planet?” 🔊✎
← I knew perfectly well that besides the large planets like the Earth, Jupiter, Mars and Venus, which have names, there are hundreds more, which sometimes are so small that it’s hard to see them even in a telescope. 🔊✎
← I have made this drawing to tell you about a terrible danger that’s been right next to us, which you, or I for that matter, didn’t even know was there. 🔊✎
← And you don’t think it’s important to understand why the flowers take so much trouble to make thorns which never help them? 🔊✎
← He blushed, then continued: “If someone loves a flower of which there is only a single one in all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at them. 🔊✎
← He had taken words seriously which were of no importance, and he felt very unhappy. 🔊✎
← The only mountains he had ever known were his three volcanoes, which came up to his knees. He used the extinct volcano as a stool. 🔊✎
← It’s the image of the rose which burns in him like the flame of a lamp, even when he is asleep…” 🔊✎