The fox's secret at Chapter 21 is the heart of the message of Le Petit Prince. The fox tells the little prince:
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Directly translated, this is:
'Here is my secret. It's very simple: One sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes'.
Back in 1943, Katherine Woods translated it like this:
'And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye'.
其實,我的秘密很簡單:只有用『心』去看,你才能看見一切,因為,真正重要的東西,是眼睛看不見的。 |