A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. . Jean Cocteau
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In the story of "The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a boy named Paul has a very rare and valuable rose named after him. The boy is lonely and very sad every day because he does not have anyone to love him. He sees a woman who looks like his mother and she gives him a rose, but the boy refuses it because he does not know if his mother is dead or alive. He keeps this rose to remind himself that his mother still loves him.

This quote talks about how hard it is to lose someone that you love because death is part of life. It breaks our hearts when we lose someone that we love because it reminds us that life is not about living forever but about living for now.

Source: The Holy Terrors

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