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- "'You're beautiful, but you're empty,' he went on. '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 watered. Since she's the one I put under glass. Since she's the one I sheltered behind a screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three for 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.'"
- "Here is my secret: it's quite simple. One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."
- "As his lips parted in a half smile, I said to myself, What moves me so deeply about this sleeping little prince is his loyalty to a flower-- the image of a rose shining within him like the flame within a lamp, even when he's asleep... And I realized he was even more fragile than I had thought. Lamps must be protected: A gust of wind can blow them out."
- "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
- "For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. For you I'm only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we'll need each other. You'll be the only boy in the world for me. I'll be the only fox in the world for you..."
- "Language is the source of misunderstandings."
- "That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."
- ""People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else."
- "I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently they're very beautiful."
- "'I shouldn't have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'You must never listen to flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.'"
- "I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range... which hasn't much improved my opinion of them."
- "Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: 'What does his voice sound like?' 'What games does he like best?' 'Does he collect butterflies?' They ask: 'How old is he?' 'How many brothers does he have?' 'How much does he weigh?' 'How much money does his father make?' Only then do they think they know him."
- "If you tell grown-ups, 'I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,' they won't be able to imagine such a house. You have to tell them, 'I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs.' Then they exclaim, 'What a pretty house!'"
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