Slowly Sloping

What moves me so deeply about this sleeping little prince is his loyalty to a flower— the image of a rose shining within him like the flame within a lamp, even when he’s asleep… And I realized he was even more fragile than I had thought. Lamps must be protected: A gust of wind can blow them out….

The Little Prince,

(translated by Richard Howard)

and written by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry



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