le petit prince c'est mon préférée

"if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all millions and millions of stars, it is enought to make him happy just to look at the stars. he can say to himself: 'somewhere, my flower is there...' but is the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened..."

"it is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"flowers are so inconsistant! but i was too young to know how to love her..."

"'where are all the men?' the little prince at last took up conversations again. 'it is a little lonely in the desert...'
'it is also lonely among men,' the snake said"

"and now here is my secret, a very simple secret: is it only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"'no one is ever satisfied where he is', said the switchman."

"'only the children know what they are looking for,' said the litle prince."

"...the stars, the desert - what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"

"but the eyes are blind. one must look with the heart..."

"one runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed..."

"the thing that is most important is the thing that is not seen..."

"'all the men have the stars,' he answered, 'but that are not the same things for different people. for some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. for others they are no more that little lights in the sky. for others, who are scholars, they are problems. for my businessman they were wealth, but all these stars are silent. you - you alone - will have the stars as no one else has them.'
'what are you trying to say?'
'in one of the stars i shall be living. in one of them i shall be laughing. and so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night.. you - only you - will have stars that can laugh!'
and he laughed again"

"for a long time you had found your entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset...
'i am very fond of sunsets. come, let us go look at a sunset now.'"

"but on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need to do is move your chair a few steps. you can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like...
'one day,' you said to me, 'i saw the sunset forty-four times!'


grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
-antoine de saint exupéry