The Little Prince (36)

The Little Prince (36)

  So the little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his love, had soon come to doubt her.

  He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

  One day, " I ought not to have listened her, " he confided to me.

  " One never ought to listento the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet.
  But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. 
  This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity. "

  And he continued his confidences :
  " The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything. I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. 
  She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have runaway from her. . . I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems.
  Flowers are soinconsistent ! 
  But I was too young to know how to love her. . . "

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