Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes About Children
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And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "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.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Only the children know what they are looking for. 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.
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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