—Ama Queequeg, ölmek veya ölmemek bizim elimizde değil ki. Bizden bir farkın, seçme hakkın olmadığına göre...
Queequeg gülümsedi.
—Birçok şey bizim elimizde dostum.
“Have you come to murder me?” he asked. “I didn’t kill Lucy’s father, Strangerson did.”
“You killed Lucy by taking her from me. I am not going to murder you, I am going to have God’s justice.”
He laughed again.
“Ah, little prince, dear little prince! I love to hear that laughter!”
“That is my present. Just that. It will be as it was when we drank the water...”
“What are you trying to say?”
“All men have the stars,” he answered, “but they are not the same things fot different people. For some, who are travelers, they are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--”
“What are you trying to say?”
“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You--only you--will have stars that can laugh!”
And he laughed again.
“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleausere... And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, ‘Yes, the stars always make me laugh!’ And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...”
And he laughed again.
“The men where you live,” said the little prince, “raise five thousand roses in the same garden--and they do not find in it what they are looking for.”
“They do not find it,” I replied.
“And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water.”
“Yes, that is true,” I said.
And the little prince added:
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...”