If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for th… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak . . ."

لعل عظمة مهنة من المهن هي، قبل كل شيء، في التوحيد بين البشر: ليس ثمة إلا ترف واحد حقيقي، هو ترف الخلائق البشرية! إننا إذ نشتغل من أجل الخيرات وحدها نشيد سجننا بأنفسنا. نسجن أنفسنا منعزلين، مع عملتنا، وهي من رماد، لا توفر أي شيء جدير بأن نحيا من أجله.

"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.
"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.
"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.
"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.
"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
"Ashamed of drinking!