Show Notes
The Little Prince is one of the most loved books ever written, and one sentence from it has escaped the book entirely: “One sees clearly only with the heart.”But what if that is not the book’s deepest idea?In this episode of The Book Brief Project, we look closely at Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous story — its suspicion of adulthood, its faith in innocence, the rose, the fox, and the uncomfortable idea hidden beneath all its tenderness.Because the fox offers something much harder than the famous lesson about seeing: once we allow something to matter to us, we become responsible for it.This is not a quick summary of The Little Prince. It is an argument with the book, and with the lesson the world chose to remember.Books, taken seriously.
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