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You become responsible, forever,
for what you have tamed.
But the eyes are blind. One must
look with the heart.
People grow five thousand roses
in one garden... Yet they don’t
find what they’re looking for...
And yet what they’re looking for
could be found in a single rose.
A
rock pile ceases to be a rock
pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within
him the image of a cathedral.
What makes the desert
beautiful,
is that somewhere it hides a
well.
Words are the source of
misunderstandings.
It
is the time you have wasted for
your rose that makes your rose
so important.
I
am who I am and I have the need
to be.
Well, I must endure the presence
of a few caterpillars if I wish
to become acquainted with the
butterflies.
Conceited people never hear
anything but praise.
Grown ups are certainly very
strange.
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.
Look up at the sky. Ask
yourself, “Has the sheep eaten
the flower or not?” And you’ll
see how everything changes. . .
. And no grown-up will ever
understand how such a thing
could be so important!
When someone blushes, doesn’t
that mean ‘yes’?
No
one is ever satisfied where he
is.
When one is so terribly sad, one
loves sunsets.
It
is such a mysterious place, the
land of tears.
To
forget a friend is sad. Not
everyone has had a friend.
Men have no more time to
understand anything. They buy
ready-made things in the shops.
But since there are no shops
where you can buy friends, men
no longer have any friends.
It
is much more difficult to judge
oneself than to judge others. If
you succeed in judging yourself
rightly, then you are indeed a
man of true wisdom.
Sometimes, there is no harm in
putting off a piece of work
until another day.
It’s all a great mystery...Look
up at the sky and you’ll see how
everything changes.
Of
course I love you. It is my
fault that you have not known it
all the while.
And when your sorrow is
comforted (time soothes all
sorrows) you will be content
that you have known me.
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