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No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world" - the little prince"
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I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!
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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.
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Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur.
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Grown ups are certainly very strange.
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if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.
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You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.
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And at night you will look up at the stars. It's too small, where I live, for me to show you where my stars is. It's better that way. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. So you'll like looking at all of them. They'll all be your friends. And, besides, I am going to make you a present...' He laughed again. 'Ah, little prince, dear little prince! I love to hear that laughter!' 'That is my present. Just that. It will be as it was w..
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of h..
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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Le langage est source de malentendus.
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That's right' said the fox. 'To me, you are still just a little boy like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. To you, I am just a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we shall need one another,. To me, you will be unique. And I shall be unique to you.
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I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. she perfumed my planet and lit up my life.
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The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.
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It is not by way of language that I shall transmit what is within me; for it is inexpressible in words. I can but signify this insofar as you may understand it through other channels than the spoken word; by love's miracle or because, born of the same God, we are akin. Else I have to drag it out, laboriously--that sunken world within me. And thus, as my clumsiness avails, I display this or that aspect alone--as in the case of my mountain, o..
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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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Ou sont les hommes?' reprit enfin le petit prince. 'On est un peu seul dans le desert.' 'On est seul aussi chez les hommes', dit le serpent.
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Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trap..
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One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture your features. You are Humanity and your face comes into my mind simply as man incarnate. You, our beloved fellowman, did not know who we might be, and yet you recognized us without fail. And I, in my turn, shall recognize you in the faces of all mankind. You came towards me in an aureole of charity and magnanimity be..
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Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
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Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over ther..
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On one star I`ll be living. On one of of the stars I will be laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You- only you -will have stars that can laugh!
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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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Y cuando te hayas consolado (uno siempre termina por consolarse) te alegraras de haberme conocido
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But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
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He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making. It is to be proud of a victory won by our comrades. It is to feel, as we place our stone, that we are contributing to the building of the world.
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Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la meme direction.
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And I love to listen to the stars at night. It is like listening to five hundred million little bells . . .
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Words are the source of misunderstandings
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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Les fleurs sont si contradictoires ! Mais j'etais trop jeune pour savoir l'aimer.
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Un jour, j'ai vu le soleil se coucher quarante-trois fois!>> Et un peu plus tard tu ajoutais: <
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? A sheep eats whatever it finds. Even a flower with thorn? Even a flower with thorns. Then what's the good of thorns?
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It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.
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If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
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Children understand.
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Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une etoile, c'est doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel.
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