Цитаты из книги «The Little Prince»

“You are an ordinary boy to me as any other thousands of boys. I don’t need you. Consequently, you don’t need me. I am just a fox to you as any other thousands of foxes. But if you tame me, we will need each other. In a whole world, you will be unique to me. And I will be unique to you.”

“I can’t play with you”, said the fox. “I am not a tame animal.”

He became sad. His beauty told him it was the only one of its kind in a whole universe. There were five thousand identical roses in this garden! “My flower would be very upset if it saw this garden”, he thought to himself. “It would cough awfully and pretend it was dying to avoid being laughed at. I would pretend to bring it to life because if I didn’t do it the beauty would really die in order to humiliate me…”

People don’t have an imagination. They repeat everything you say to them… I had a beautiful flower on my planet. It always started a conversation first…”

He couldn’t see anything except the spiny mountain tops.

“I should be able to see a whole planet with all the people on it from such a high mountain”, the Little Prince thought to himself.

several years ago. You never know where to look for them. The wind blows them away. They don’t have roots so their life is very difficult.”

“You are not very powerful. You don’t even have legs. You won’t even be able to travel…” “I can transport you further than any ship will do”, the snake said.

“It’s so lonely in a desert…” “It’s very lonely among people as well”

Advise them to count themselves. They love numbers, they will like it. But don’t waste your time doing this unnecessary job yourself. There is no point. I know, believe me.