The Prince is a book that has come into my hands several times. The first, remember, was too small to understand, and I confess that I liked. However, as with a few years I reread it several times and love it. Book is very simple but very true, that talks about life experiences in a very tender.
Here it is part of Chapter xxi: my favorite. This chapter explains how to create friendships and bonds of love. I guess you know him, but it does not hurt to remember. I leave you with "chapter of the fox")
CHAPTER XXI
Then came the fox
- Good morning - said the fox.
- Good morning - the little prince responded politely, but that turned did not see anyone.
- I'm here - "the voice said - under the apple tree ...
- Who are you? - Said the prince. - You are very nice ...
- I am a fox - the fox said.
- Come play with me - he proposed the little prince. - I'm so sad ...
- I can not play with you - said the fox. - I am not tamed.
- Ah! sorry - said the prince.
But, upon reflection, he added:
- What does "tame"?
(...)
- is too often neglected - said the fox. - It means "to create links ..."
- Creating links?
- Claro - Said the fox. - Still not for me just a little boy like a hundred thousand other children. And I need you. And you do not need me. I'm not for you just a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we need each other. Thou shalt be to me unique in the world. I will for you unique in the world ...
- begin to understand - said the prince. - There is a flower ... I think I have tamed ...
- Can - said the fox. -
(...)
But the fox returned to his idea:
- My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens, men hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men appear. I'm bored, therefore, a little. But if you tame me, my life will be as bright. Shall know the sound of footsteps that will be different from everyone else. Other steps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. (...)
The fox paused and looked long at the prince,
- Please ... Tame! - Said.
- Sounds good - said the prince - but I have not much time. I have to find friends and learn many things.
- only knows what one domestic - said the fox. - Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things already made to the merchants. But as traders no friends, men have no friends. If you want a friend, tame me!
- What to do? - Said the prince.
- Be very patient - answered the fox. - You sit down at rather far from me, so, in the grass. I shall look at you askance and say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But every day you will sit a little closer ...
next day the prince returned.
- would have been better to return at the same time - said the fox. - If you come, for example, at four in the afternoon, and from the three begin to be happy. The closer the time, the happier I feel. When you get four, disturb, and I will shake me; discover the price of happiness! But if you come at any time, never know what time to prepare my heart ... It's good to have rites.
- What is a rite? - Said the prince.
- It's also too forgotten - said the fox. - It's what makes a day different from other days, when other times. My hunters, for example, have a ritual. On Thursday they dance with young people. So Thursday is a wonderful day! I'm going to walk to the vineyard. If the hunters danced at just any time, every day and I seem to have no holidays.
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when it approached the hour of departure:
- Ah! - Said the fox ... - I will mourn.
- It's your fault - said the prince - I do not wish any harm but you wanted to tame you.
- of course - said the fox.
- But you're going to mourn! - Said the prince.
- of course - said the fox.
- Then you do not win anything!
- If I win, "said the fox - (...)
He added:
- Go and look again at the roses. Understand that yours is unique in the world. And when you come to say goodbye, I'll give you a secret.
The prince went to look again at the roses
- You are not in any way like my rose, you are nothing yet - they said. - No one has tamed you and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox was. It was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I made friends with him and now he is unique in the world. (...)
Surely, anyone would think my rose go they seem. But it alone is more important than all of you, since it is she that I have watered. Since it is she who shelter under the balloon. Since she whom I protected with the screen. Since it is she whose caterpillars killed (except the two or three for butterflies). Since she whom I heard complaining, or boasted, or even sometimes remain silent. Since it's my rose.
and returned with the fox
- Goodbye - said ...
- Goodbye - said the fox. - Here is my secret. It is very simple: only looks good from the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- What is essential is invisible to the eye - the little prince repeated to remember.
- The time you have spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.
- The time I lost my rose ... - Said the prince to remember.
- Men have forgotten this truth, - said the fox. - But you must not forget. You are responsible forever for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose ...
- I am responsible for my rose ... - Repeated the little prince to remember.
(Saint-Exupéry, 1943) ________________________________________
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