Stanislaw LEM. Solaris (№ 382730)

We go into space prepared for anything, that is, to loneliness, struggle, suffering and death. Out of modesty we don't say it out loud, but think to myself that we're awesome. But in reality, it really is not all our availability is insufficient. We do not want to conquer the cosmos, just want to extend the Earth to its borders. Some of the planet's desert, like the Sahara, others are covered with ice, as a pole, or frying, as the Brazilian jungle. We are humane, noble, we don't want to conquer other races, I just want to pass on to them our values and in return to accept their inheritance. We consider ourselves the knights of the Holy Contact. This is the second lie. Not looking for anyone, except people. We don't need other worlds. We need a mirror. We don't know what to do with other worlds. This one's enough, and it is something we already depressing. We want to find our own idealized image, it must be worlds with a civilization more advanced than ours. In other hope to find the picture of our primitive past, at the same time on the other side is something we cannot accept, from what is protected. But we brought from Earth not only distillate virtue, a heroic monument Man! Came here are what they are in reality, and when the other party shows us this reality - I can't come to terms with it.