"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."

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“That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.”

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”

“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”

“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”

“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”

“Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”

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