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Roses don't sprout briskly; for magnificence, similar to any magnum opus, sets aside some effort to bloom." "The more you love roses the more you should hold on for thistles." "A rose in a desert can just get by on its quality, not its excellence." "If roses were not extraordinary weeds would not begrudge them.
The little prince goes to see the roses again. - You don't look like my rose at all, you're nothing yet. He told them. - Nobody tamed you, and you didn't tame anyone either. And my fox was like you. She was just a fox like hundreds of thousands of others. But I made her my friend, and she is now the only one in the world. The roses were very confused. "You are beautiful, but you are empty," he told them again. - A man can't die for you. Certainly, some ordinary passer-by would believe that my rose is similar to you. But she herself is more important than all of you put together, because I watered her. Which I put under the glass bell. Because I shielded it from the wind. Because I killed caterpillars from it (except for two or three because of butterflies). Because I listened to her moan, or brag, or sometimes even shut up. Because it's my rose. And he returned to the fox: "Goodbye," said the Little Prince. "Goodbye," said the fox. - Here's my secret! It is very simple. We only see well with our hearts. The essence is invisible to the eyes. "The essence is invisible to the eyes," repeated the Little Prince, to remember.