Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Yr of Published : 1943
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. This is the famous line uttered by the fox to the Little Prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince (translated as The Little Prince in English). There are also two other main points in the book, both spoken by the fox which are also very meaningful. They are: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important". These are essentially the little things that even a child know but essentially we had failed to see it ourselves from time to time even when we know and understand it.
Throughout the book the children's view on the world, on the main points of the human life and relations between people, which is represented by the Little Prince and partially by the narrator, is set off against the "grown-ups'" one, revealed in memories of the narrator and in the characters, met by the Little Prince on asteroids. But the author underlines, that the "grown-ups" are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people."
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