Once more I had rubbed shoulders with a truth that I did not comprehend. I believed myself lost, I thought I had reached the bottom of despair, and then once I had resigned myself to my fate, I knew peace. It seems at such times that one discovers oneself and becomes one’s own friend. An essential need one was not aware of, bringing with it an impregnable sense of self-fulfillment.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939, Ukemi (2016 edition)