You know, I used to sweat sometimes when I was digging. My rheumatism would pull at my leg, and I would damn myself for a slave. And now, do you know, I'd like to spade and spade. It's beautiful work. A man is free when he is using a spade. And besides, who is going to prune my trees when I am gone?
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAnd the voice spoke even more deliberately: '...but remember what is under the ocean of clouds: eternity.'
And suddenly that tranquil world, the world of such simple harmony that you discover as you rise above the clouds, took on an unfamiliar quality in my eyes. All that gentleness became a trap. In my mind's eye I saw that vast white trap laid out, right under my feet. Beneath it reigned neither the restlessness of men nor the living tumult and motion of cities, as one might have thought, but a silence that was even more absolute, a more final peace. That viscous whiteness was turning before my eyes into the boundary between the real and the unreal, between the known and the unknowable. And I was already beginning to sense that a spectacle has no meaning except when seen through a culture, a civilization, a professional craft.
What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."
The next day the little prince came back.
"It would have been better to come back at the same hour," said the fox. "If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you...
One feels rather lonely in the dessert.'
'It is just as lonely among men.
Los hombres de tu planeta cultivan cinco mil rosas en un mismo jardín... - dijo el principito- y no encuentran lo que buscan...
- No lo encuentran... - respondí.
- Y sin embargo, lo que buscan bien podrían encontrarlo en una sola rosa o en un poco de agua...
- Claro que sí - dije.
Y el principito añadió:
- Pero los ojos son ciegos. Hay que buscar con el corazón.
Tag: inspirational
whether it's a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful is invisible.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryA nagyok semmit sem értenek meg maguktól, a gyerekek pedig belefáradnak, hogy örökös-örökké magyarázgassanak nekik.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryA gyerekeknek nagyon elnézőknek kell lenniük a fölnőttek iránt.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryOlyan titokzatos világ a könnyek országa.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLátod. Mindenkitől azt kell követelni, amit az illető megtehet. A tekintély legelső alapja az értelem – mondta a király. – Ha népednek azt parancsolod, vesse magát a tengerbe: föllázad, forradalmat csinál. Azért van jogom engedelmességet követelni, mert ésszerűek a parancsaim.
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