Welcome to BookCrossing. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. All grown-ups were children first. (But few remember it). Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again. That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. ... I have serious reasons to believe that the planet the little prince came from is Asteroid B-612. Grown-ups like numbers. If you tell grown-ups, "I saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves on the roof...," they won't be able to imagine such a house. "For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. "If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. "I'd like to see a sunset... "If I commanded a general to fly from one flower to the next like a butterfly, or to write a tragedy, or to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not carry out my command, which of us would be in the wrong, the general or me?
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