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Chasing The Little Prince in New York City

Friday, August 10, 2012 13:03

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“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I didn’t expect to find a story about a stranded aviator and a cosmos-travelling boy in the United Nations bookstore in New York City.

Yet there The Little Prince was, prominently displayed on a table near the door – an easy find in a bookstore dominated by tales of war, genocide and oppression of minorities.

Is there a special reason why Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s message – of hope, of learning to judge yourself before others, and of keeping a childlike wonder about the world – is embedded in such a place, I wondered?
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