Цитаты из книги «The Little Prince»

It seems to them that people need a lot of space. They think of themselves as much as baobab trees do.

I wasn’t completely honest when I told you about the lamplighters. I am afraid, I can give a wrong impression about our planet to those who don’t know it.

“My flower won’t live for a long time”, he said to himself. “The beauty has only four thorns to defend itself from this world and I have left it alone on the planet!” At that moment, he felt sorrow for the first time. But he took a deep breath and asked.

“Geography is the most important book among other books. It never ages. It happens very rarely when a mountain changes its position. An ocean dries out very rarely. We write about timeless things.”

“We don’t take records of them because they don’t last long”, the geographer said.

“But you are a geographer!” “That’s true”, the geographer said. “But I am not an explorer. There aren’t any explorers on my planet. It’s not the geographer’s task to count cities, rivers, mountains, seas or deserts.

“Where are you from?” the elderly gentleman asked him.

“Very interesting!” the Little Prince exclaimed. “At last, I meet a man who has a real profession!” He looked around the geographer’s planet. It was the most stunning and magnificent planet he had ever seen.

The Little Prince didn’t dare to admit that a real reason why he hesitated to leave the planet was the fact that it had 1440 sunsets per day!

“This man is the only one who I would like to be my friend. But his planet is indeed too small. There is no place for two…”