ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY
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"Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince.  "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry . . ."
   "They are lucky," the switchman said.  [The Little Prince]

"The men where you live," said the little prince, "raise five thousand roses in the same garden--and they do not find in it what they are looking for."
   "They do not find it," I replied.
   "And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water."
   "Yes, that is true,"  I said.
   And the little prince added:
   "But the eyes are blind.  One must look with the heart . . ."  [The Little Prince]

...Wait for a time, exactly under the star.  Then, if a man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is.  If this should happen, please comfort me.  Send me word that he has come back.  [the last words of The Little Prince]

"Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation again.  "It is a little lonely in the desert . . ."
   "It is also lonely among men," the snake said.  [The Little Prince]

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
    
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