The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen
‘The stars men follow have different meanings. For some people - travellers - the stars are guides. For others they are merely little lights in the sky. For others still - the scientists - they are problems to be solved. For my businessman they meant gold. But for all these people, the stars are silent. For you, the stars will be as they are for no one else.’
‘What are you trying to say?’
‘At night, when you look up at the sky, since I shall be living on a star, and since I shall be laughing on a star, for you it will be as if all the stars are laughing. You alone will have stars that can laugh!
And when you have got over your loss (for we always do), you’ll be happy to have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And sometimes you will open your window - just like that, for the sake of opening it - and your friends will be amazed to see you laughing as you look up at the sky. Then you’ll say to them: “Yes, it’s the stars; they always make me laugh!”‘
- The Little Prince
- the intellectual nerd , the quoter
s t a r m | s t October 16th, 2005
