| We often seek to accomplish our being without help; I walk in the country, I break off a stem, I kick a pebble, I climb a hill; all that without witnesses. But no one is satisfied with such solitude for his entire life. As soon as my walk is completed, I feel the need to tell a friend about it. King Candaule wanted his wife's beauty to shine for everyone's eyes. Thoreau lived for years in the woods, alone, but upon returning he wrote Walden. And Alain Gerbault wrote Seul á travers l'Atlantique. Even Saint Teresa wrote The Interior Castle, and Saint John of the Cross his canticles
| As soon as a child has finished a drawing or a page of writing, he runs to show them to his parents. He needs their approval as much as candy or toys; the drawing requires an eye that looks at it