The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Little Prince, can you love a man as you love a flower?
- Of course, people are like flowers …
- What is the meaning of “to love”?
- Admiration, appreciation of presence, desire to provide joy, contentment, peace, adventure …
- Do we need words in love?
- Very few, very rarely … true feelings although invisible, they can show nevertheless …
- Do we need to touch in love?
- Not intentionally, but it is lovely when it happens … like accidentally …
- Is it important to listen in love?
- Yes, but not the words, not their meaning. We are listening for the music … to find where from the words are coming.
- Is sacrifice needed in love?
- When you joyfully offer everything you have and everything you are, can this be called sacrifice? It is called gift. Love implies giving. As little as a grain if you hold back for yourself, of what use could it be?
- You know how to love beautifully, Little Prince!
- Is there any other way? How do people on Terra love?
- People see, like what they see, then they want to own. They want to claim property of what they like, to take it and hold it locked in their homes where only they can look at it and touch it as they please. They are capable of killing for this. People talk a lot and ask of their beloved to change according to their ideas. Then, they get bored and want another.
- How strange to call this love!
- How should they call it?
- I don’t know … I don’t have to many words …
