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Chapter 1 Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far... I do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I must have gotten old... "It is a question of discipline; when you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet"... "I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now." It is such a secret place, the land of tears. "One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance" "Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies" It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others... Conceited people never hear anything but praise. "The grown-ups are certainly very, very odd" "I myself own a flower, which I water every day; -it is of some use to my flower, that I own (her). But you are of no use to the stars..." ...it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time. "My flower is ephemeral, -and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world"... So then the seventh planet was the Earth. "Whomever I touch, I send back to the earth from whence he came, -But you are innocent and true, and you come from a star..." "(Men) They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult." "What a queer planet! -It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them... On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak..." His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden! It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Chapter 22nly the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their "Only the children know what they are looking for, -They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "As for me, -if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water." "What makes the desert beautiful, -is that somewhere it hides a well..." One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed... (time soothes all sorrows) Here, then, is a great mystery. |
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