"I showed my Masterpiece to 'The Grown UPS', and asked them if the Drawings frightened them?
They Answered Me:
'Why Should anyone be frightened by a hat?'
My Drawing was NOT of a Hat, but of a Boa Constrictor digesting an Elephant. Then I drew the inside of the Boa Constrictor, so the 'Grown-Ups' could see it clearly....they always seem to need things explained."
"All Grown Ups were Once children, but so few ever remember it."
"To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...."
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"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 -- you alone will have the stars as no one else has them... 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."
Disguised as a children's book, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella The Little Prince offers more wisdom in its very few pages than some authors can hope to produce in a lifetime. The fact that it's been translated into more than 230 languages from the original French is proof that its message resonates worldwide.
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