How is it possible for one to own the stars?” “To whom do they belong?” the businessman retorted, peevishly.“I don’t know. To nobody.”“Then they belong to me, because I was the first person to think of it.”“Is that all that is necessary?” “Certainly. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you write a patent: it is yours. So with me: I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of them.”
Цитаты из книги «Маленький принц / The Little Prince»
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“If someone loves a flower, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, ‘Somewhere, my flower is there.’ But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened. And you think that is not important!” He did not say anything more. He began to sob.
“To admire means that you regard me as the handsomest, the best-dressed, the richest, and the most intelligent man on this planet.”
“But you are the only man on your planet!”
The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! Judge by deeds[19] and not by words[20]. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. But I ran away from her. Flowers are so inconsistent! I was too young to know how to love her.
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