Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?"
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"if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?"
"الغنم إذا أكلت الشجيرات، فهل تأكل الزهور أيضاً؟
الغنم تأكل كل ما تجده.
حتى زهرة ذات أشواك؟
حتى زهرة ذات أشواك.
فما فائدة الأشواك إذن؟"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."
"وإن لم يكن هناك يرقات وفراشات، فمن سأحادث؟ ستكون بعيدًا. أما المخلوقات الأكبر حجمًا، فلا أخافها. لدي أشواكي... لتحميني."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens...they will all be your friends."-the little prince"
"سيكون نجمي بالنسبة لك مجرد نجم من النجوم. وهكذا ستحب أن تشاهد كل النجوم في السماء... ستصبح كلها أصدقاءك."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them..."
"أنت - أنت وحدك من ستمتلك النجوم على نحو لم يمتلكها أحد من قبل..."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The fox is answering the Little Prince's question. What does that mean . . . tame? asks the Little Prince. Itmeans to establish ties. One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to understand anything, they buy things all ready made at the shops, but there is no shop anywhere one can buy friendship."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"All the stars are a riot of flowers."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"I don't much like assuming the tone of a moralist. But the danger of baobabs is so little recognized, and the risks run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid are so considerable, that for once I am making an exception to my habitual reserve."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"there is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"“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.”"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince
"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"I shall never again admire a merely brave man."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"One must command from each what each can preform."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. 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 every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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