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Quotes [The Little Prince]

1. All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

2. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

3. One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.

4. That is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

5. One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

6. 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...

7. But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.

8. It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

9. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

10. But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

11. 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.

12. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

13. Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

14. You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

15. 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...

16. 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 all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

17. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

18. All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems.

19. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh

20. It's a little lonely in the desert..." "It is lonely when you're among people, too

21. I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . .

22. 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.

23. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

24. 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.

25. I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

29. "You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you."

30. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.'

'One only understands the things that one tames,' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.'

31. "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."

32. "I was too young to know how to love her."

33. "No one is ever satisfied where he is."

34. "But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise."

35. "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..."

36. "I am who I am and I have the need to be."

37. "I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-"

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PS: Simula basahin ko ito nahilig ako magbasa ng libro. Highly Recommended na book ko to sa inyo.