Tame me

“I am a fox”, the fox said.
“Come and play with me,” proposed the little prince.
“I am so unhappy”.
“I cannot play with you,” the fox said. “I am not tamed.”
“Ah! Please excuse me,” said the little prince. But, after some thought, he added: “What does that mean – ‘tame”?”
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“It’s an act too often negleted,” said the fox. “It means to estabilish ties.”
“’To estabilish ties’?”
“Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundread thousnad other boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...”
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“Please - tame me!” he said.
“I want to, very much,” the little prince replied. “But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.”
“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox.
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“What must I do to tame you?”, asked the little prince. “You must be very patience,” replied the fox. “First you will sit at a little distance from me – like tat – in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...”
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So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near – “Ah,” said the fox, “I shall cry?”
“It is your own fault,” said the little prince. “I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you...”
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“Goodbye,” he said.“Goodbye,” said the fox. “And now here is my secreted, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essencial is invisible to the eye.”

in The Little Prince, from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry