But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world...
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. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
Conceited men only ever hear praise.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
The only things you learn are the things you tame
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.
Grown ups are certainly very strange.
Ljudje ne vidijo lepote tega sveta, ker jih slepijo njihove strasti in napake; zato so drug od drugega bolj oddaljeni kot zvezde.
The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...
To vain men, other people are admirers.
You're not at all like my rose. You're nothing at all yet. No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone. You're the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my own and now he is unique in the world.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar.
To you I am just a fox, like a hundred thousand others, but if you tame me we shall need one another and I shall be unique to you in all the world.
I am who I am and I have the need to be.
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
Vain men never hear anything but praise.
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
Now here is my secret, very simply: you can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is, If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons...
One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...
What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them...Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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