Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.

People where you live, the little prince said, grow five thousand roses in one garden... Yet they don't find what they're looking for... And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose.

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — the rose that belongs to me.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them