' The Rose '

‘ Go and look at the roses again. You will understand that yours is, after all, unique in the world. ’

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‘You are nothing like my rose,’ he told them. ‘ As yet you are nothing at all. Nobody has tamed you, and you have tamed nobody. ’

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‘You are beautiful, but you are empty,’ he went on. ‘One could not die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But in herself she matters more than all of you together, since it is she that I watered; sin it is she that I placed under the glass dome; since it is she that I sheltered with the screen; since it is she whose caterpillars I killed . Since it is she that I listened to, when she complained , or boasted, or she was simply being silent. Since it is she who is my rose.’

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​—— The Little Prince