The Little Prince

The Little Prince 读书笔记1.原句：“Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”感想：As the saying goes, "No pains,no gains."But the former sentence full of metaphor and imagination is more delicate.2.原句：“I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. ”感想：We have plunged into the sleek words in daily life more often and made a belief. Perhaps we would regret if we understood others' real intention, but all the spilt milk could not be retrieved. To make matters worse,some people, just like me, judge objects by imagination instead of reason. Our imagination covers a magnificent mask on others' deeds and words.3.原句：“Then you shall judge yourself,” the king answered. “that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.感想：The German philosopher, Immanurel Kant, exclaimed, “Freedom is self-discipline.”It will be more tricky once the thing concerns oneself. We need to know ourselves before we know others. Difficult as it is, we have known the problem at least. It will keep us out of conceit possibly.4.原句：“Why are you drinking?”demanded the little prince.“So that I may forget,” replied the tippler.“Forget what?” inquired the little prince, who already was sorry for him.“Forget that I am ashamed,” the tippler confessed, hanging his head.“Ashamed of what?” insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.“Ashamed of drinking!” 感想：Hahahahahah……(ಥvಥ)5.原句：“I administer them,” replied the businessman. “I count them and recount them. It is difficult. But I am a man who is naturally interested in matters of consequence.”感想：Here is a man who have thought that he owned all of the stars and counted them everyday. People often regard count money as the happiest thing. In fact, it is barely a monotonous job of accountant. Of course, spending money would be more exhilarating than counting them, but is so pity that we could not pay a dot of star for a loaf of bread, forever.6.原句：“I always want to rest,” said the lamplighter. For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.感想：This is a binary world. We live with truth and falsehood, hope and regret, moderation and appetite, etc.It might as well has no kindness or malignity, the significant thing is just a kind of choice.7.原句：When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.感想：The truth likes a silver lining in the cave, but the falsehood is not opposite to it. Even the falsehood spawns the truth sometimes. So, no matter of reality or falsity, they are neither true nor wrong. However, wit makes them more interesting. As for me, it is not important to keep away from truth because I have never touched it. By contrast, the wit often driven me to go through the dark cave.8.原句：Words are the source of misunderstandings.感想：Silence is gold. But it also causes misunderstandings. Perhaps, misunderstanding is inevitable because we could not express all the ideas in our brain and others would not feel it. The exchange is nothing more than a sort of sympathy. Pointless as it is, one must say a lot and then stay silent.9.原句：But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses:because it is she that I have watered

我们所看到的不一定是我们所认为的。 我们都会感觉到，越长大，我们得到很多，却也失去很多既珍贵又不易察觉的事物、天性，例如想象力。 或许我们的人生就是在修建一个框架的过程。最初，我们模仿身边人的框架，因为开始时我们一无所知，只以为修得越结实越好，却渐渐把自己困在了里面。 有时，我会恨自己的脑袋太笨，太无趣。我想是因为我只顾着模仿而放弃了想象。 作者说那是一只吞了大象的蟒蛇，大家都会“哇“一声，然后称赞作者丰富的想象力吧。然后，就没有然后了。至少我僵硬的脑袋没有浮现任何异象。

==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Irene Testot-Ferry)- 您在位置 #283-285的标注 | 添加于 2013年12月27日星期五 下午7:23:19"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: ==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Irene Testot-Ferry)- 您在位置 #285-286的标注 | 添加于 2013年12月27日星期五 下午7:23:38"You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Irene Testot-Ferry)- 您在位置 #335-338的标注 | 添加于 2013年12月27日星期五 下午7:30:59"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... And you think that is not important!" He could not say anything more. His words were choked by sobbing.==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Irene Testot-Ferry)- 您在位置 #345-345的标注 | 添加于 2013年12月27日星期五 下午7:32:38the land of tears.==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Irene Testot-Ferry)- 您在位置 #396-398的标注 | 添加于 2013年12月27日星期五 下午7:42:28"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 run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; Irene Testot-Ferry)- 您在位置 #428-432的标注 | 添加于 2013年12月27日星期五 下午7:49:36You will be far away... as for the large animals-- I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws." And, naïvely, she showed her four thorns. Then she added: "Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!" For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower...==========

"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are slient. You-you alone-will have the stars as no one else has them-" "What are you trying to say?" "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!" And he laughed again.