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

Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him

If you were to say to the grown-ups:
“I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,” they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them:
“I saw a house that cost $20,000.” Then they would exclaim:
“Oh, what a pretty house that is

If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures

Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old

The lesson which I pass on by this means is worth all the trouble it has cost me.

If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, ‘Somewhere, my flower is there…’ But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened

It is such a secret place, the land of tears

“that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers