If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, p. 18
"Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, p. 61
"There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, p. 80
"Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world...."
"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world."
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you -- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is *my* rose."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, p. 86-7
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.... It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.... You have become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, p. 87-8
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