If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers... - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'

And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'

'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'

But the prince made no answer.

In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.