"The proof that the little prince existed..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
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“More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.”
“It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.”
“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”
More on Existence
“Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.”
“We do not become. We simply are.”
“The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.”
More on Joy
“I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
“Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.”