But I was not reassured. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of weepinga little, if one lets himself be tamed ...
- P154
"It is just as it is with the flower. If you love a flower that lives on astar, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom withflowers ..."
"Yes, I know ..." - P160
Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable. And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert. - P160
"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 skyat night You-only you—will have stars that can laugh!" - P162
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you willbe content thatyouhave known me. You will always be my friend. You willwant to laugh with me. - P162
"내가 별들 중의 하나에 살고 있을테니까요. 내가 그 별들 중의 하나에서 웃고 있을거예요. 그러니까 밤에 아저씨가 하늘을 쳐다보게 되면 별들이 모두 웃는 것처럼 보일 거예요.……… 아저씨는 단지 아저씨만이 웃을 수 있는 별들을 갖게 될 거예요."
그리고 그는 다시 웃는 것이었다.
"그리고 아저씨의 슬픔이 가라앉을 때에는 (시간이 흐르면 자연히 모든 슬픔은 가라앉게 되므로) 나를 알았던 것을 만족스럽게 여기게 될 거예요. 아저씨는 언제나 내 친구일거예요. 나하고 웃고 싶어할테죠. "
- P163
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