“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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“A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
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