Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
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The only things you learn are the things you tame
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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
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But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
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You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, ‘What they could do, I can do.
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One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye.
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