Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince (1943)

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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.

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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

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

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What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.

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"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation..."

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Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

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To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole of the six continents, a veritable army of 462,511 lamplighters for the street lamps.

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So you, too, come from the sky! Which is your planet?

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This asteroid has only once been seen through the telescope. That was by a Turkish astronomer, in 1909. On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what he said.

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