4 entries | | | | | | untitled | wrote | | But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose... | | | | untitled | wrote | | You are not at all like my rose, he said. As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world | | | | untitled | wrote | | What must I do, to tame you? asked the little prince.
You must be very patient, replied the fox. First you will sit down at a little distance from me-- like that-- in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day... | | | | untitled | wrote | | No, said the little prince. I am looking for friends. What does that mean-- 'tame'?
It is an act too often neglected, said the fox. It means to establish ties.
'To establish ties'?
Just that, said the fox. To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall | | | | 4 entries | | |
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