Mali Princ Quotes

Samo se srcem dobro vidi, suština je očima nesaglediva.

- "I uvijek će te voljeti?" - "Ne" , reče ruža , "jednog dana ću uvenuti i onda će prestati da mi se dive .." - "Baš čudno" , reče Mali Princ . "Da si ti moja ruža , ja bih te volio i tada.

- "I uvijek će te voljeti?" - "Ne" , reče ruža , "jednog dana ću uvenuti i onda će prestati da mi se dive .." - "Baš čudno" , reče Mali Princ . "Da si ti moja ruža , ja bih te volio i tada .

Kad tajanstveno deluje suviše snažno, čovek se ne usuđuje da ne posluša.

Govor je izgovor nesporazuma.

Treba od svaoga tražiti ono što može da pruži. Vlast pre svega počiva na razumu. Ja imam pravo da zahtevam pokornost jer su moja narđenja razumna.

...on mi jedini ne izgleda smešan. Možda zato što se bavi nečim drugim, a ne samim sobom.

- Gde su ljudi? - nastavi najzad mali princ. - Čovek se pomalo oseća usamljenim u pustinji... Čovek je usamljen i među ljudima - reče zmija.

- Čovek upozna samo one stvari koje pripitomi - reče lisica. - Ljudi nemaju više vremena da bilo šta upoznaju. Oni kod trgovaca kupuju sasvim gotove stvari. Ali kako nema trgovaca koji prodaju prijatelje, ljudi više namaju prijatelja. Ako želiš prijatelja, onda me pripitomi.

Čovek nikad nije zadovoljan tamo gde je.

Back in 1415, Prince Henry and his brothers had convinced their father, King John of Portugal, to capture the principal Muslim trading depot in the western Mediterranean: Ceuta, on the northeastern tip of Morocco. These brothers were envious of Muslim riches, and they sought to eliminate the Islamic middleman so that they could find the southern source of gold and Black captives. After the battle, Moorish prisoners left Prince Henry spellbound as they detailed trans-Saharan trade routes down into the disintegrating Mali Empire. Since Muslims still controlled these desert routes, Prince Henry decided to “seek the lands by the way of the sea.” He sought out those African lands until his death in 1460, using his position as the Grand Master of Portugal’s wealthy Military Order of Christ (successor of the Knights Templar) to draw venture capital and loyal men for his African expeditions. In 1452, Prince Henry’s nephew, King Afonso V, commissioned Gomes Eanes de Zurara to write a biography of the life and slave-trading work of his “beloved uncle.” Zurara was a learned and obedient commander in Prince Henry’s Military Order of Christ. In recording and celebrating Prince Henry’s life, Zurara was also implicitly obscuring his Grand Master’s monetary decision to exclusively trade in African slaves. In 1453, Zurara finished the inaugural defense of African slave-trading, the first European book on Africans in the modern era. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea begins the recorded history of anti-Black racist ideas. Zurara’s inaugural racist ideas, in other words, were a product of, not a producer of, Prince Henry’s racist policies concerning African slave-trading.1

Legend has it that Georgy II, Grand Prince of Vladimir, first built the town of Maly Kitezh on the Volga River many hundreds of years ago. Later on, the prince crossed the rivers of Uzola, Sanda and Kerzhenets and found a beautiful spot on the shores of the Lake Svetloyar, where he decided to build the town of Bolshoy Kitezh. He named both the towns after the royal residence of Kideksha, which had been ransacked by the Mongols in 1237.

After having already conquered some of the Russian lands, Batu Khan heard of the beauty and opulence of the prince’s new city, Kitezh and ordered his army to advance towards it. The Mongols soon captured Maly Kitezh, forcing Georgy to retreat into the woods towards Bolshoy Kitezh. The city’s location was betrayed by one of the captured men who told the Mongols about the secret paths to Lake Svetloyar.

Glavni junak "Lovca u raži" nikada nije bio samo književni lik: za generacije čitalaca na većini svetskih jezika on je već šezdesetak godina neporecivo živ, kao prijatelj, sabesednik, sapatnik, kao stariji ili mlađi brat. Šesnaestogodišnji begunac iz škole, begunac je i iz licemernog sveta odraslih koji uvredljivo rutinski nastoji da ga proguta. Holden Kolfild je prerano ostareli, razočarani Mali Princ; jednu deceniju ranije, u vreme kada je Egziperi ispisivao svoj evergrin, možda je za čovečanstvo još i bilo nekakve nade: godine 1951, Selindžerov junak rezignirano je zaključio da više ništa – čak ni kazna i pokora u vidu svetskog rata – ne može ljudski rod privesti pameti, dobroti, i humanosti. Konj je human, automobil nije - kaže Holden u jednom trenutku. Takav cinizam mogao je usred snažnog talasa poratnog optimizma delovati kao puka tinejdžerska poza; vrlo brzo, međutim, ispostavilo se da je imao i te kakvo opravdanje. Stoga i nije čudno što su dva najznačajnija američka romana pedesetih – Selindžerov "Lovac u raži" i Keruakov "Na putu" – romani bekstva, poslednji pokušaji da se umakne iz potrošačkog raja u nastajanju. No dok Keruakov Din Morijarti bez suvišnih emocija beskrajnim putovanjem jednostavno pokušava da sačuva sebe, Holden Kolfild u teskobnoj sobi jeftinog njujorškog hotela beskrajno pati – ne toliko zbog toga što je neprilagođen, sam i zbunjen svim i svačim, koliko zato što je svet tako neizlečivo bolestan. Kontrast njegovog "frajerskog" jezika i ranjive detinje prirode na potresan način odražava jade adolescencije, objedinjene apsurdnom željom da se odraste pre vremena – posebno svojstvenom onima koji, poput Holdena, nikada neće uspeti da odrastu.