Sunday, January 10, 2010

Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

Like Joseph Heller said, perhaps only the children will be left when you take out all the bad things from this world. The prince's travels from one adult's planet to another become successively more depressing. It's true that adults often live on their own restrictive planets according to rules that don't allow for other planets to exist.

"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." But children can see these things. When did I forget how to see?

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