The Little Prince

if you tame me, my life will be as if enlightened by the sun. I will know the sound of a step that will be different from all others. The other steps will make me go underground. Yours will call me out of the burrow, like music.

I was carrying a fragile treasure.

The grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and, for children, it’s tiresome always giving them explanations.

We might cry a little if we let ourselves be tamed…

“What is a ritual?” said the little prince. “It is also something really forgotten,” said the fox. “It is what makes one day different from the other days, one hour, from the other hours.

This water was something more than food. It was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, as a gift.

The little prince, who asked me a lot of questions, never seemed to hear mine.

must support two or three caterpillars if I want to know the butterflies.

We have to ask from everyone what everyone can give,”