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- A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
- The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised…
- The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:…
- But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
- If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them…
- Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
- A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
- The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
- And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.…
- I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply…
- 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…
- All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
- That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
- 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.
- People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still…
- Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and…
- We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for…
- And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing…
- It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.…
- The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
- All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are…
- I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing…
- When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face…
- 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…
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