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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"you can only see things clearly with your heart. what is essential is invisible to the eye."
revisiting one of my favorite books of all timeeeeee!!!!! i have not read this since high school french class and it still hits the same. the little prince is so special. the child-like wonder is something that's inside everyone, even if being a child is a distant memory. this is one of those books where it's marketed as a children's book but you know it's not. major themes of destructive cycles here- selfishness, greed, manipulation, power, addiction, passivity, etc.. there's many different characters you meet along the way and they all make you come away with a profound realization.
"'do the stars glow so that some day everyone can find a way back to their own?'"
this book takes place in the desert, but also somewhere in space. it's tied to the present but also floating somewhere else entirely. the desert and space are similar when you stop looking.
the addition of 'letter to a hostage' is a great pairing to the little prince. it adds context to the tone of saint-exupery at the time of an occupied france.
"the stars men follow have different meanings. for some people- travellers- the stars are guides. for others they are merely little lights in the sky. for others still- the scientists- they are problems to be solved. for my businessman they meant gold. but for all these people, the stars are silent. for you, the stars will be as they are for no one else...at night when you look up at the sky, since i shall be living in a star, and since i shall be laughing on a star, for you it will be as if all the stars are laughing. you alone will have stars that can laugh!"
revisiting one of my favorite books of all timeeeeee!!!!! i have not read this since high school french class and it still hits the same. the little prince is so special. the child-like wonder is something that's inside everyone, even if being a child is a distant memory. this is one of those books where it's marketed as a children's book but you know it's not. major themes of destructive cycles here- selfishness, greed, manipulation, power, addiction, passivity, etc.. there's many different characters you meet along the way and they all make you come away with a profound realization.
"'do the stars glow so that some day everyone can find a way back to their own?'"
this book takes place in the desert, but also somewhere in space. it's tied to the present but also floating somewhere else entirely. the desert and space are similar when you stop looking.
the addition of 'letter to a hostage' is a great pairing to the little prince. it adds context to the tone of saint-exupery at the time of an occupied france.
"the stars men follow have different meanings. for some people- travellers- the stars are guides. for others they are merely little lights in the sky. for others still- the scientists- they are problems to be solved. for my businessman they meant gold. but for all these people, the stars are silent. for you, the stars will be as they are for no one else...at night when you look up at the sky, since i shall be living in a star, and since i shall be laughing on a star, for you it will be as if all the stars are laughing. you alone will have stars that can laugh!"