Surely many of us in childhood read the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. There is probably not a person in the world who does not know its main character - the boy with golden hair. Some phrases from it have become so popular.
This book can be reread and reread even now. It is simply imbued with allegories. It intertwines the writer’s love for his wife (a beautiful rose) and longing for childhood, worries about a friend (in the book this is the Fox) and many other feelings and emotions. The warmth and light of the Baby warms the soul so much.
The fairy tale first saw the light during the war years and was published in 1943. It has been translated into more than 180 languages, films have been made based on the book, and music has been written. This book has become part of modern culture and is scattered into quotes.
Let's remember the best quotes from this book. And if anyone hasn't read it yet, be sure to find this book and read it. How much wisdom there is in her. We are sure you will like it!
You are forever responsible for the one you tamed
The best quotes from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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People get on fast trains, but they themselves no longer understand what they are looking for. Therefore, they do not know peace and rush in one direction, then in the other... And all in vain.
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You are forever responsible for the one you tamed.
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You live in your actions, not in your body. You are your actions, and there is no other you.
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There is such a firm rule. Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.
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Don't wait, it's unbearable! If you decide to leave, then leave.
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All you have to do is move the chair a few steps. And you look at the sunset sky again and again, if you just want to.
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Words only interfere with understanding each other.
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I would like to know why the stars glow. Probably so that sooner or later everyone can find theirs again.
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How to call so that he can hear, how to catch up with his soul, which is eluding me... After all, it is so mysterious and unknown, this country of tears...
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Then judge yourself. This is the hardest part. It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise
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Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
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Although human life is more valuable than anything in the world, we always act as if there is something even more valuable in the world than human life... But what?
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When we understand our role on earth, even the most modest and inconspicuous, then only we will be happy.
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You are looking for meaning in life; but its only meaning is for you to finally come true.
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They always grieve about one thing - about the time that has passed, leaving nothing behind, about the wasted days.
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Only children know what they are looking for.
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Sometimes there is nothing wrong with putting off some work until the next day.
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However, he is the only one out of everyone who doesn't seem funny to me. Perhaps it's because he's thinking about something other than himself.
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The only thing I love in life is sleeping.
It is the time you spend on your rose that makes your rose so important. "The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fairy tale "The Little Prince", 1943
You are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed. - (Fox) Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes. Everyone must be asked what they can give. Power must first of all be reasonable. It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. Words only interfere with understanding each other. When you let yourself be tamed, then it happens that you cry. Each person has their own stars. There is such a firm rule. Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order. Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when nothing can be taken away. When planting an oak tree, it’s funny to dream that you will soon find shelter in its shade. By working only for material benefits, we build a prison for ourselves. All our riches are dust and ashes; they are powerless to give us something worth living for. A person learns about himself in the fight against obstacles. To be human means to feel that you are responsible for everything. You can't make old friends quickly. What is the use of political doctrines that promise the blossoming of man if we do not know in advance what kind of man they will produce? The kingdom of man is within us. The truth of a person is what makes him a person. With the death of each person, the unknown world dies. Loving does not mean looking at each other, loving means looking together in the same direction. Truth is not something that can be proven; truth is simplicity. We all—some vaguely, some more clearly—feel: we need to awaken to life. But how many false paths open up. Those who lived for a long time with all-consuming love, and then lost it, sometimes get tired of their noble loneliness. And, humbly returning to life, he finds happiness in the most ordinary affection. The truth does not lie on the surface. From the moment the airplane and mustard gas became weapons, the war became simply a massacre. Victory goes to the one who rots last. And both opponents rot alive. In our world, all living things gravitate towards their own kind, even flowers, bending in the wind, mix with other flowers, a swan knows all swans - and only people withdraw into solitude. That which gives meaning to life gives meaning to death. When we understand our role on earth, even the most modest and inconspicuous, then only we will be happy. Perhaps it is beautiful to die in order to conquer new lands, but modern war destroys everything for which it is supposedly waged. There are too many people in the world who have not been helped to awaken. It’s good when something new, more perfect, is born in a dispute between different civilizations, but it’s monstrous when they devour each other. At the appointed hour, life disintegrates like a pod, giving away its grains. The animal retains its grace even in old age. Why is the noble clay from which man is sculpted so deformed? It is not the ugliness of this shapeless human clay that is painful. But in each of these people, perhaps, Mozart has been killed. Why do we hate each other? We are all at the same time, carried away by the same planet, we are the crew of one ship. Longing is when you long to see something, you don’t know what... It exists, it is unknown and desired, but it cannot be expressed in words.
She is the only one dearer to me than all of you
Quotes from The Little Prince about the rose
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What they are looking for can be found in a single rose...
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“You are beautiful, but empty,” continued the Little Prince. “I won’t want to die for your sake.” Of course, a random passerby, looking at my rose, will say that it is exactly the same as you. But she alone is dearer to me than all of you. After all, it was her, not you, that I watered every day. He covered her, not you, with a glass cover. He blocked it with a screen, protecting it from the wind. I killed caterpillars for her, leaving only two or three so that the butterflies hatched. I listened to how she complained and how she boasted, I listened to her even when she fell silent. She is mine.
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You should never listen to what flowers say. You just have to look at them and breathe in their scent. My flower filled my entire planet with fragrance, but I did not know how to rejoice at it.
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I must tolerate two or three caterpillars if I want to meet butterflies.
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Your rose is so dear to you because you gave it all your days.
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The people who live here grow five thousand roses in one garden... And yet they do not find what they are looking for... Although what they are looking for can be found in one rose.
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I didn’t understand anything then! It was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds. She gave me her scent and illuminated my life. I shouldn't have run. Behind these pitiful tricks and tricks one had to guess the tenderness. The flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young, I didn’t know how to love yet.
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You know... my rose... I am responsible for her. And she is so weak! And so simple-minded. All she has is four measly thorns; she has nothing else to protect herself from the world...
If you love without hope of reciprocity, remain silent about your love. In silence it will become fruitful. "The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wise expressions from the fairy tale The Little Prince (100 expressions)
The fairy tale “The Little Prince” is often called a work about children for adults, because the meaning inherent in this story touches the souls more often than teenagers and adults, who can look through the written lines and see what the author really wanted to say. This work is a concentration of the author’s desires and thoughts, embodied in a simple, essentially story that tells readers about love, friendship, acceptance of other people’s ideals, and other people’s emotions. The Prince's selfless love for Rose, his friendship with the Fox, his conversation with the Pilot - all these are allusions to real life, told in simple language, but with incredibly deep meaning. This collection contains wise expressions from the fairy tale The Little Prince.
If you keep going straight and straight, you won’t get far...
Each person has their own stars.
There is such a firm rule,” the Little Prince told me afterwards. - Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.
I didn't want you to get hurt. You yourself wanted me to tame you.
You know... when you're very sad, it's good to watch the sun go down...
We are responsible for those we have tamed.
I know one planet, there lives such a gentleman with a purple face. He had never smelled a flower in his entire life. I never looked at a star. He never loved anyone. And he never did anything. He is busy with only one thing: adding numbers. And from morning to night he repeats one thing: “I am a serious person! I’m a serious person!” - just like you. And he's literally swelled with pride. But in reality he is not a person. He's a mushroom.
This is how my Fox used to be. He was no different from a hundred thousand other foxes. But I became friends with him, and now he is the only one in the whole world.
If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars - that’s enough: you look at the sky - and you’re happy. And you say to yourself: “My flower lives there somewhere...” But if the lamb eats it, it’s the same as if all the stars went out at once! And this, in your opinion, does not matter!
Vain people are deaf to everything except praise.
“I listened to her in vain,” he once told me trustingly. “You should never listen to what flowers say.” You just have to look at them and breathe in their scent. My flower filled my entire planet with fragrance, but I did not know how to rejoice at it.
- How is it to tame? - This is a long-forgotten concept. It means: to create bonds.
I didn’t understand anything then! It was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds. She gave me her scent and illuminated my life. I shouldn't have run. Behind these pitiful tricks and tricks one had to guess the tenderness. The flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young, I didn’t know how to love yet.
Children should be very lenient towards adults.
“Then judge yourself,” said the king. - This is the most difficult thing. It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.
People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends.
“I have a flower,” he said, “and I water it every morning.” I have three volcanoes and I clean them out every week. I clean all three, and the one that went out too. You never know what can happen. Both my volcanoes and my flower benefit from the fact that I own them. And the stars have no use for you...
It's very sad when friends are forgotten. Not everyone had a friend.
Here is a man,” the Little Prince said to himself, continuing on his way, “here is a man whom everyone would despise - the king, the ambitious, the drunkard, and the businessman.” And yet, of all of them, he is the only one, in my opinion, who is not funny. Maybe because he thinks not only about himself.
After all, vain people imagine that everyone admires them.
It's truly useful because it's beautiful.
Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
“My beauty and joy are short-lived,” the Little Prince said to himself, “and she has nothing to defend herself from the world: she only has four thorns.” And I abandoned her, and she was left all alone on my planet!
And when you are consoled (eventually you are always consoled), you will be glad that you once knew me. You will always be my friend. You'll want to laugh with me. Sometimes you open the window like this, and you will be pleased... And your friends will be surprised that you laugh, looking at the sky. And you tell them: “Yes, yes, I always laugh when looking at the stars!” And they'll think you're crazy. This is the cruel joke I will play on you.
That’s it,” said the Fox. “For me, you are still just a little boy, just like a hundred thousand other boys.” And I don't need you. And you don't need me either. For you I am only a fox, exactly the same as a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we will need each other. you will be the one for me
You live in your actions, not in your body. You are your actions, and there is no other you.
the only one in the whole world. And I will be alone for you in the whole world...
You can only learn those things that you tame,” said the Fox. “People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends. If you want to have a friend, tame me!
He didn't answer any of my questions, but when you blush, it means yes, doesn't it?
And if you come every time at a different time, I don’t know what time to prepare my heart. Rituals must be observed.
Words only interfere with understanding each other.
You are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed.
Oh, baby, baby, how I love it when you laugh.
Words only interfere with understanding each other.
It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.
“You are beautiful, but empty,” continued the Little Prince. “I won’t want to die for your sake.” Of course, a random passerby, looking at my rose, will say that it is exactly the same as you. But she alone is dearer to me than all of you. After all, it was her, not you, that I watered every day. He covered her, not you, with a glass cover. He blocked it with a screen, protecting it from the wind. I killed caterpillars for her, leaving only two or three so that the butterflies hatched. I listened to how she complained and how she boasted, I listened to her even when she fell silent. She is mine.
People get on fast trains, but they themselves no longer understand what they are looking for. Therefore, they do not know peace and rush in one direction, then in the other. And all in vain.
Only one heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
It's also lonely among people.
It's good where we are not.
And if you come every time at a different time, I don’t know what time to prepare my heart.
But what they are looking for can be found in a single rose, in a sip of water...
It's stupid to lie when you can be caught so easily.
You have to search with your heart.
Your rose is so dear to you because you gave it your whole soul.
If you keep going straight and straight, you won’t get far...
Each person has their own stars.
There is such a firm rule,” the Little Prince told me afterwards. - Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.
I didn't want you to get hurt. You yourself wanted me to tame you.
You know... when you're very sad, it's good to watch the sun go down...
We are responsible for those we have tamed.
I know one planet, there lives such a gentleman with a purple face. He had never smelled a flower in his entire life. I never looked at a star. He never loved anyone. And he never did anything. He is busy with only one thing: adding numbers. And from morning to night he repeats one thing: “I am a serious person! I’m a serious person!” - just like you. And he's literally swelled with pride. But in reality he is not a person. He's a mushroom.
This is how my Fox used to be. He was no different from a hundred thousand other foxes. But I became friends with him, and now he is the only one in the whole world.
If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars - that’s enough: you look at the sky - and you’re happy. And you say to yourself: “My flower lives there somewhere...” But if the lamb eats it, it’s the same as if all the stars went out at once! And this, in your opinion, does not matter!
Vain people are deaf to everything except praise.
“I listened to her in vain,” he once told me trustingly. “You should never listen to what flowers say.” You just have to look at them and breathe in their scent. My flower filled my entire planet with fragrance, but I did not know how to rejoice at it.
- How is it to tame? - This is a long-forgotten concept. It means: to create bonds.
I didn’t understand anything then! It was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds. She gave me her scent and illuminated my life. I shouldn't have run. Behind these pitiful tricks and tricks one had to guess the tenderness. The flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young, I didn’t know how to love yet.
Children should be very lenient towards adults.
“Then judge yourself,” said the king. - This is the most difficult thing. It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.
People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends.
“I have a flower,” he said, “and I water it every morning.” I have three volcanoes and I clean them out every week. I clean all three, and the one that went out too. You never know what can happen. Both my volcanoes and my flower benefit from the fact that I own them. And the stars have no use for you...
It's very sad when friends are forgotten. Not everyone had a friend.
Here is a man,” the Little Prince said to himself, continuing on his way, “here is a man whom everyone would despise - the king, the ambitious, the drunkard, and the businessman.” And yet, of all of them, he is the only one, in my opinion, who is not funny. Maybe because he thinks not only about himself.
After all, vain people imagine that everyone admires them.
It's truly useful because it's beautiful.
Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
“My beauty and joy are short-lived,” the Little Prince said to himself, “and she has nothing to defend herself from the world: she only has four thorns.” And I abandoned her, and she was left all alone on my planet!
And when you are consoled (eventually you are always consoled), you will be glad that you once knew me. You will always be my friend. You'll want to laugh with me. Sometimes you open the window like this, and you will be pleased... And your friends will be surprised that you laugh, looking at the sky. And you tell them: “Yes, yes, I always laugh when looking at the stars!” And they'll think you're crazy. This is the cruel joke I will play on you.
That’s it,” said the Fox. “For me, you are still just a little boy, just like a hundred thousand other boys.” And I don't need you. And you don't need me either. For you I am only a fox, exactly the same as a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we will need each other. you will be the one for me
You live in your actions, not in your body. You are your actions, and there is no other you.
the only one in the whole world. And I will be alone for you in the whole world...
You can only learn those things that you tame,” said the Fox. “People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends. If you want to have a friend, tame me!
He didn't answer any of my questions, but when you blush, it means yes, doesn't it?
After all, all adults were children at first, but few of them remember this.
And if you come every time at a different time, I don’t know what time to prepare my heart. Rituals must be observed.
Words only interfere with understanding each other.
You are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed.
Oh, baby, baby, how I love it when you laugh.
Words only interfere with understanding each other.
It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.
“You are beautiful, but empty,” continued the Little Prince. “I won’t want to die for your sake.” Of course, a random passerby, looking at my rose, will say that it is exactly the same as you. But she alone is dearer to me than all of you. After all, it was her, not you, that I watered every day. He covered her, not you, with a glass cover. He blocked it with a screen, protecting it from the wind. I killed caterpillars for her, leaving only two or three so that the butterflies hatched. I listened to how she complained and how she boasted, I listened to her even when she fell silent. She is mine.
People get on fast trains, but they themselves no longer understand what they are looking for. Therefore, they do not know peace and rush in one direction, then in the other. And all in vain.
Only one heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
It's also lonely among people.
It's good where we are not.
And if you come every time at a different time, I don’t know what time to prepare my heart.
But what they are looking for can be found in a single rose, in a sip of water...
When you say to adults: I saw a beautiful red brick house with geraniums in the windows and pigeons on the roof - they just can’t imagine this house. They must be told: I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs. And then they exclaimed beauty. What beauty!
It's stupid to lie when you can be caught so easily.
You have to search with your heart.
Your rose is so dear to you because you gave it your whole soul.
If you keep going straight and straight, you won't get far.
Here is the proof that the Little Prince really existed: he was very, very nice, he laughed, and he wanted to have a lamb. And whoever wants a lamb certainly exists.
He didn't answer any of my questions, but when you blush, it means yes, doesn't it?
You are beautiful - but empty. I don't want to die for you.
These adults are strange people.
The eyes are blind. You have to search with your heart.
The salvation is to take the first step. One more step. It’s with him that everything starts anew.
But if it is some kind of bad herb, you need to pull it out by the roots as soon as you recognize it.
Absence will teach you to truly love
Quotes from The Little Prince about love
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Separation will teach you to truly love.
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Love is when nothing is ashamed, nothing is scary, you know? When they don’t let you down, they won’t betray you. When they believe.
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If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars, that's enough: you look at the sky and feel happy. And you say to yourself: “My flower lives there somewhere...”
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True love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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Loving does not mean looking at each other, loving means looking together in the same direction.
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Do not confuse love with the thirst for possession, which brings so much torment. Contrary to popular belief, love does not cause pain. The instinct of property is tormenting.
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A favorite flower is, first of all, a rejection of all other flowers.
I didn't know what else to tell him. I felt terribly awkward and clumsy. How to call so that he can hear, how to catch up with his soul, which is eluding me... “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Loving does not mean looking at each other, loving means looking together in the same direction.
To be human means to feel that you are responsible for everything.
It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others.
The earth helps us understand ourselves in a way that no books can help. For the earth resists us.
Golden wheat will remind me of you. And I will love the rustling of the ears in the wind...
-And when you are consoled, - in the end you are always consoled, - you will be glad that you once knew me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. Sometimes you will open the window like that, and you will be pleased...
“You can only learn those things that you tame,” said the Fox. “People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends.
All our riches are dust and ashes; they are powerless to give us something worth living for.
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when nothing can be taken away.
A person learns about himself in the fight against obstacles.
The salvation is to take the first step. One more step. It’s with him that everything starts anew.
You know... when it gets really sad, it's good to watch the sun go down...
You will look at the stars at night, but there will be a star where I live, where I laugh, and you will hear how all the stars laugh!
When planting an oak tree, it’s funny to dream that you will soon find shelter in its shade.
By working only for material benefits, we build a prison for ourselves.
I didn't know what else to tell him. I felt terribly awkward and clumsy. How to call so that he can hear, how to catch up with his soul, which is eluding me...
You should never listen to what flowers say. You just have to look at them and breathe in their scent. My flower filled my entire planet with fragrance, but I did not know how to rejoice at it.
— Each person has his own stars. For those who wander, they show the way. For others, they are just little lights. For scientists, they are like a problem that needs to be solved. For my businessman they are gold. But for all these people the stars are mute. And you will have very special stars... - How so? “You will look at the sky at night, and there will be such a star there, where I live, where I laugh, and you will hear that all the stars are laughing.” You will have stars who know how to laugh
It is much more difficult to judge yourself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.
Everyone must be asked what they can give. Power must first of all be reasonable.
Kings look at the world in a very simplified way: for them, all people are subjects.
It's very sad when friends are forgotten
Quotes from The Little Prince about friendship
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It's very sad when friends are forgotten. Not everyone had a friend.
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People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends.
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My friend never explained anything to me. Maybe he thought I was just like him.
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It's good to have a friend, even if you have to die soon.
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I recognize friendship by the absence of disappointments, true love by the inability to be offended.
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Author *When you allow yourself to be tamed, then it happens to cry. *When you really want to make a joke, sometimes you inevitably lie. *Whether it’s a house, a star or a desert, the most beautiful thing about them is what you can’t see with your eyes. *Adults never understand anything themselves, and for children it is very tiring to endlessly explain and explain everything to them. *My friend never explained anything to me. Maybe he thought I was just like him. *The most important thing is what you can’t see with your eyes... The Little Prince *If you keep going straight and straight, you won’t get far... *It’s good if you once had a friend, even if you have to die. *There is such a firm rule. Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order. *If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars - that’s enough: you look at the sky - and you’re happy. And you say to yourself: “My flower lives there somewhere...” *And people lack imagination. They only repeat what you tell them... At home I had a flower, my beauty and joy, and it was always the first to speak. “People get on fast trains, but they themselves don’t understand what they are looking for,” said the Little Prince. - Therefore, they know no peace and rush in one direction, then in the other... *People grow five thousand roses in one garden... and do not find what they are looking for. But what they need can be found in one single rose, in a sip of water... * I didn’t understand anything then! It was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds. *Do you know why the desert is good? Somewhere in it springs are hidden.. *I don’t like to pass death sentences. And anyway, I have to go. *Only children know what they are looking for. They devote all their days to a rag doll, and it becomes very, very dear to them, and if it is taken away from them, the children cry... *Every person has his own stars. *Eyes are blind. You have to search with your heart. *Vainous people are deaf to everything except praise. *It's like with a flower. If you love a flower that grows somewhere on a distant star, it’s good to look at the sky at night. All the stars are blooming. *If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars, that’s enough: you look at the sky and feel happy. “You are not at all like my rose,” he told them. -You are nothing yet. No one has tamed you, and you have not tamed anyone. This is how my Fox used to be. He was no different from a hundred thousand other foxes. But I became friends with him, and now he is the only one in the whole world. Fox *Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes. *There is no perfection in the world! *Words only interfere with understanding each other. “You can only learn those things that you tame,” said the Fox. — People no longer have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no such shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends. “People have forgotten this truth,” said the Fox, “but don’t forget: you are forever responsible for everyone you tamed.” You are responsible for your rose. *For me, you are still just a little boy, just like a hundred thousand other boys. And I don't need you. And you don't need me either. For you, I am just a fox, exactly the same as a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we will need each other. You will be the only one for me in the whole world. And I will be alone for you in the whole world...
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Quotes from Fox from The Little Prince
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“It’s better to always come at the same hour,” the Fox asked. “For example, if you come at four o’clock, I’ll feel happy from three o’clock.” And the closer to the appointed time, the happier. And if you come every time at a different time, I don’t know what time to prepare my heart... You need to follow the rituals.
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It's also lonely among people.
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When you let yourself be tamed, then you cry
All adults were children at first, but few of them remember this. "The Little Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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A little prince
Leon Vert
I ask the children to forgive me for dedicating this book to an adult. I’ll say this in justification: this adult is my best friend. And one more thing: he understands everything in the world, even children's books. And finally, he lives in France, and now it’s hungry and cold there. And he really needs consolation. If all this does not justify me, I will dedicate this book to the boy who was once my adult friend. After all, all adults were children at first, but few of them remember this. So I am correcting the dedication:
Leon Vert,
when he was little
I
When I was six years old, in a book called “True Stories”, which told about virgin forests, I once saw an amazing picture. In the picture, a huge snake - a boa constrictor - was swallowing a predatory beast. Here's how it was drawn:
The book said: “The boa constrictor swallows its prey whole without chewing. After that, he can no longer move and sleeps for six months straight until he digests the food.”
I thought a lot about the adventurous life of the jungle and also drew my first picture with a colored pencil. This was my drawing #1. Here's what I drew:
I showed my creation to adults and asked if they were scared.
- Is the hat scary? - they objected to me.
And it wasn't a hat at all. It was a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant. Then I drew a boa constrictor from the inside so that adults could understand it more clearly. They always need to explain everything. This is my drawing #2:
The adults advised me not to draw snakes, either outside or inside, but to be more interested in geography, history, arithmetic and spelling. This is how it happened that for six years I gave up my brilliant career as an artist. After failing with drawings #1 and #2, I lost faith in myself. Adults never understand anything themselves, and for children it is very tiring to endlessly explain and explain everything to them.
So, I had to choose another profession, and I trained to be a pilot. I flew around almost the whole world. And geography, to tell the truth, was very useful to me. I could tell the difference between China and Arizona at a glance. This is very useful if you get lost at night.
In my time I have met a lot of different serious people. I lived among adults for a long time. I saw them very close. And, to be honest, this didn’t make me think any better about them.
When I met an adult who seemed to me more intelligent and understanding than others, I showed him my drawing No. 1 - I kept it and always carried it with me. I wanted to know if this man really understood something. But they all answered me: “It’s a hat.” And I no longer talked to them about boa constrictors, or about the jungle, or about the stars. I applied myself to their concepts. I talked to them about playing bridge and golf, about politics and about ties. And the adults were very pleased that they met such a sensible person.
II
So I lived alone, and there was no one I could talk to heart to heart. And six years ago I had to make an emergency landing in the Sahara. Something broke in the engine of my plane. There was no mechanic or passengers with me, and I decided that I would try to fix everything myself, even though it was very difficult. I had to fix the engine or die. I barely had enough water for a week.
So, the first evening I fell asleep on the sand in the desert, where there was no habitation for thousands of miles around. A man who was shipwrecked and lost on a raft in the middle of the ocean would not be so alone. Imagine my surprise when at dawn someone’s thin voice woke me up. He said:
- Please... draw me a lamb!
- A?..
- Draw me a lamb...
I jumped up as if thunder had struck above me. He rubbed his eyes. I began to look around. And I saw a funny little man who was looking at me seriously. Here is the best portrait of him that I have since been able to draw. But in my drawing, of course, he is not nearly as good as he really was. It is not my fault. When I was six years old, adults convinced me that I would not be an artist, and I learned to draw nothing except boa constrictors - outside and inside.
So, I looked with all my eyes at this extraordinary phenomenon. Remember, I was thousands of miles from human habitation. And yet it didn’t look at all like this little guy was lost, or tired and scared to death, or dying of hunger and thirst. There was no way to tell from his appearance that he was a child lost in an uninhabited desert, far from any habitation. Finally my speech returned and I asked:
- But... what are you doing here?
And he again asked quietly and very seriously:
- Please... draw a lamb...
All this was so mysterious and incomprehensible that I did not dare refuse. No matter how absurd it was here, in the desert, on the verge of death, I still took out a sheet of paper and an eternal pen from my pocket. But then I remembered that I studied more geography, history, arithmetic and spelling, and I told the kid (I even said a little angrily) that I couldn’t draw. He replied:
- Doesn't matter. Draw a lamb.
Since I had never drawn a ram in my life, I repeated for him one of the two old pictures that I only know how to draw - a boa constrictor outside. And he was very surprised when the baby exclaimed:
- No no! I don't need an elephant in a boa constrictor! The boa constrictor is too dangerous and the elephant is too big. Everything in my house is very small. I need a lamb. Draw a lamb.
And I drew.
He looked carefully at my drawing and said:
- No, this lamb is already quite frail. Draw someone else.
I drew.
My new friend smiled softly, condescendingly.
“You can see for yourself,” he said, “this is not a lamb.” This is a big ram. He has horns...
I drew it differently again. But he refused this drawing too:
- This one is too old. I need a lamb that will live a long time.
Then I lost patience - after all, I had to quickly disassemble the engine - and scratched the box.
And he said to the baby:
- Here's a box for you. And inside it sits the kind of lamb you want.
But how surprised I was when my stern judge suddenly beamed:
- That is good! Do you think this lamb needs a lot of grass?
- And what?
- After all, I have very little at home...
- He's had enough. I'm giving you a very small lamb.
“He’s not that small...” he said, tilting his head and looking at the drawing. - Check this out! He fell asleep...
This is how I met the Little Prince.
III
It took me a while to understand where he came from. The little prince bombarded me with questions, but when I asked about something, he seemed not to hear. Only little by little, from random, casually dropped words, everything was revealed to me. So, when he first saw my plane (I won’t draw a plane, I still can’t handle it), he asked:
-What is this thing?
- This is not a thing. This is a plane. My plane. He is flying.
And I proudly explained to him that I can fly. Then he exclaimed:
- How! Did you fall from the sky?
“Yes,” I answered modestly.
- That's funny!..
And the Little Prince laughed loudly, so that I was annoyed: I like my misadventures to be taken seriously. Then he added:
