“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
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<p>A beautifully bound gift edition of this touching and wise classic book for children.</p> <p>A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper . . .</p> <p>Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed the world forever for its readers. Often seen as a symbol of childhood innocence, Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s best-selling book The Little Prince is cherished by children and adults alike across the globe.</p>
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Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“The only things you learn are the things you tame”
“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...”
“You're beautiful, but you're empty...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 a...”
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in hersel...”
“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.”
“You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”
“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”
“For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such tr...”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
“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...”
“Please-tame me!' he said. 'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.' 'One only understa...”
“The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!”
“If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”
“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”