A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

il n'est ni sagesse, ni calcul, ni science de l'eau quand elle dissout les digues et engloutit les villes des hommes.
(chapitre XV)

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.