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46. the little prince.

i didn't know how a book can impact your entire life this much. until I read it. until I became the little prince. until I had a rose. until I tamed a fox. until I watched 45 sunsets. until I put up the stars in the night sky.

i didn't know.

this isn't a children's book. it's for the grown-ups. and if you won't treasure this book. or keep it close to your heart. if you won't cry while reading it. if you will be the same person before and after you read it. don't read the book. just don't.

1. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

2. What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

3. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

4. All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

5. You—you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You—only you—will have stars that can laugh.

6. It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

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

8. Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

9. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

10. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.