GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.
He who never says "no" is no true man.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
To live is to be slowly born.
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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.
One only really sees with the heart.
It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. [Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
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