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"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night . . . You--only you--will have stars that can laugh!"

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“It is she that I have watered…. because she is my rose.”

“But you are of no use to the stars.”

“Matters of consequence!”
“You talk just like the grown-ups!”

I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep.

“Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.”