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Gallery XI

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Portrait of Suzanne
Spanish original: "Retrato de Suzanne"

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Portrait of Suzanne | Retrato de Suzanne
Gallery XI: "Portraits" | «Retratos»
2001
oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm
private collection

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
French author.

French French original

English English translation

Le petit prince s'en fut revoir les roses:

- Vous n'êtes pas du tout semblables à ma rose, vous n'êtes rien encore, leur dit-il. Personne ne vous a apprivoisées et vous n'avez apprivoisé poersonne.  Vous êtes comme était mon renard. Ce n'était qu'un renard semblable à cent mille autres.  Mais j'en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde.

Et les roses étaient bien gênées.

- Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides, leur dit-il encore. On ne peut pas mourir pour vous. Bien sûr, ma rose à moi, un passant ordinaire croirait qu'elle vous ressemble.  Mais à elle seule elle est plus importante que vous toutes, puisque c'est elle que j'ai arrosée.  Puisque c'est elle que j'ai mise sous globe. Puisque c'est elle que j'ai abritée par le paravent. Puisque c'est elle dont j'ai tué les chenilles (sauf les deux ou trois pour les papillons). Puisque c'est elle que j'ai écouté se plaindre, ou se vanter, ou même quelquefois se taire. Puisque c'est ma rose.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Le petit prince, xxi

The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.

"You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world."

And the roses were very much embarassed.

"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "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; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince, xxi

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Gallery XI: Portraits

no.

original title

title in English

006

Retrato a mi padre

Portrait to my father

019

Autorretratouno

First Self-Portrait

043

Retrato de Suzanne

Suzanne's Portrait

074 Rosa Mari Rosa Mari
075 Juan Luis Juan Luis
076 Flora Flora
077 Pierre De Lattre Pierre De Lattre
078 Luis Luis

Galleries

no.

original title

title in English

I.

De mares

About Seas (3)

II: Máscaras Masks (3)
III.

Vanidades

Vanities (4)

IV.

Humani nihil a me alienum puto

Nothing human is distant to me (5)

V.

Desasosiego

Disquiet (8)

VI.

Sueños

Dreams (5)

VII.

Soledades

Solitudes (4)

VIII.

Deseos

Wishes (5)

IX.

Advenimiento del Superhombre

Advent of the Superman (6)

X.

Del Hierro al Titanio

From Iron to Titanium (25)

XI.

Retratos

Portraits (8)

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