Beauty, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), The Little Prince

너희들은 아름답지만 공허해. 누가 너희들을 위해서 죽을 수 없을 테니까. 물론 나의 꽃도 지나가는 사람에겐 너희들과 똑같겠지. 그렇지만 나에겐 그 꽃 한송이가 너희 모두를 합친 것보다 소중해. 내가 직접 물을 준 꽃이니까.

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