"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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"Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur."

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“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

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“You're beautiful, but you're empty... One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”

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"You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one... I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night...only you, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.”