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just how I look at things...

I am a pessimistic person.

Agatha Christie wrote in her book:
'There is always a doubt about everything. There may always be some incalculable factor that upsets the apple-cart.'

'Time soothes all Sorrows'

'You know - one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...'
'Where you so sad, then?' I asked, 'on the day of the forty-four sunset?'
But the little prince made no reply.

My favourite book - Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)

Written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1943, it's a child's fable for adults, with a gentle and grave reminder that the best things in life are still the simplest ones and that real wealth is giving to others.

'Straight ahead of himself, nobody can go very far...'
'It's also lonely among men.'
'It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'

And most touchingly, it's a love story between the little prince and his rose ...

'But in herself alone she is more important than all hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; ...
because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose ...

Homepage of Kat / katze at iname dot com / first created September 1996