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161 " Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes... "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , The Little Prince
162 " In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages. "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Night Flight
163 " It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. "
164 " The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen. "
165 " What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties. "
166 " You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world... "
167 " Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wind, Sand and Stars
168 " You're not a man, you're a mushroom! "
169 " Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. "
170 " My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. "
171 " Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again "
172 " Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance. "
173 " No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.You're the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world. "
174 " Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. "
175 " Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. "
176 " Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn't that important? If a person loves a flower that is the only one of its kind on all the millions and millions of stars, then gazing at the night sky is enough to make him happy. He says to himself "My flower is out there somewhere." But if the lamb eats the flower, then suddenly it's as if all the stars had stopped shining. Isn't that important? "
177 " But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. "
178 " I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, and I asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered:"why be scared of a hat?" My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. "
179 " I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons... "
180 " You are beautiful, but you are empty", he went on. "One could not die for you. "