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54 So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot air-planes. I have flown a little over all
76 imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd little voice.
98 And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be
110 geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar, and I told the little chap (a little crossly, too) tha…
117 was that of the boa constrictor from the outside. And I was astounded to hear the little fellow
158 And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.
160 It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many
162 little by little, everything was revealed to me.
176 “Oh! That is funny!” And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me
189 “My little man, where do you come from? What is this ‘where I live,’ of which you speak? Where
198 But the little prince seemed shocked by this offer: “Tie him! What a queer idea!”
205 Then the little prince said, earnestly: “That doesn’t matter. Where I live, everything is so small!”
211 I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince
225 I have serious reason to believe that the planet from which the little prince came is the asteroid
251 what a pretty house that is!” Just so, you might say to them: “The proof that the little prince
261 “Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely any bigger
281 some errors, too, in the little prince’s height: in one place he is too tall and in another too sho…
286 through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.
288 As each day passed I would learn, in our talk, something about the little prince’s planet, his
293 This time, once more, I had the sheep to thank for it. For the little prince asked me abruptly, as …
296 “It is true, isn’t it, that sheep eat little bushes?”
302 I did not understand why it was so important that sheep should eat little bushes. But the little
303 prince added: “Then it follows that they also eat baobabs?” I pointed out to the little prince that
304 baobabs were not little bushes, but, on the contrary, trees as big as castles; and that even if he
307 The idea of the herd of elephants made the little prince laugh. “We would have to put them one on
310 “Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little.”
312 “That is strictly correct,” I said. “But why do you want the sheep to eat the little baobabs?”
318 Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince lived, as on all planets, go…
326 until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed will stretch
327 itself and begin, timidly at first, to push a charming little sprig inoffensively upward toward the
332 Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these
338 “It is a question of discipline,” the little prince said to me later on.
343 resemble so closely in their earliest youth. It is very tedious work,” the little prince added, “but
354 I knew a planet that was inhabited by a lazy man. He neglected three little bushes... So, as the
355 little prince described it to me, I have made a drawing of that planet. I do not much like to take
356 the tone of a moralist. But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood, and such considerable
368 Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life... For a lon…
386 Unfortunately, France is too far away for that. But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you
392 And a little later you added: “You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...” “Were you so
395 But the little prince made no reply.
397 On the fifth day, again, as always, it was thanks to the sheep, the secret of the little prince’s l…
401 meditation on his problem, he demanded: “A sheep; if it eats little bushes, does it eat flowers,
419 extremely serious. And I had so little drinking water left that I had to fear for the worst.
423 The little prince never let go of a question, once he had asked it. As for me, I was upset over that
429 Then the little prince flashed back at me, with a kind of resentfulness: “I don’t believe you!
436 Again the little prince disturbed my thoughts. “And you actually believe that the flowers...”
446 “You talk just like the grown-ups!” That made me a little ashamed. But he went on, relentlessly:
464 “A mushroom!” The little prince was now white with rage. “The flowers have been growing thorns
481 which one little sheep can destroy in a single bite some morning, without even noticing what he is
491 death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. I
500 I soon learned to know this flower better. On the little prince’s planet the flowers had always been
504 up; and the little prince had watched very closely over this small sprout which was not like any
508 get ready to produce a flower. The little prince, who was present at the first appearance of a huge
519 …arcely awake. I beg that you will excuse me. My petals are still all disarranged...” But the little
526 The little prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest, but how moving, and
530 think of my needs” And the little prince, completely abashed, went to look for a sprinkling can of
534 was, if the truth be known, a little difficult to deal with.
536 One day, for instance, when she was speaking of her four thorns, she said to the little prince: “Let
539 “There are no tigers on my planet,” the little prince objected. “And, anyway, tigers do not eat
545 “A horror of drafts, that is bad luck, for a plant,” remarked the little prince, and added to himse…
553 or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
559 Then she forced her cough a little more so that he should suffer from remorse just the same. So
560 the little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his love, had soon come …
578 behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to
589 no end of trouble upon us. The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the
590 last little shoots of the baobabs. He believed that he would never want to return. But on this last
631 “Ah! Here is a subject,” exclaimed the king, when he saw the little prince coming. And the little
638 The little prince looked everywhere to find a place to sit down; but the entire planet was crammed
645 “I can’t help it. I can’t stop myself,” replied the little prince, thoroughly embarrassed.
652 “That frightens me... I cannot, any more...” murmured the little prince, now completely abashed.
655 sputtered a little, and seemed vexed. For what the king fundamentally insisted upon was that his
663 “May I sit down?” came now a timid inquiry from the little prince. “I order you to do so,” the king
664 answered him, and majestically gathered in a fold of his ermine mantle. But the little prince was
673 the stars. “Over all that?” asked the little prince. “Over all that,” the king answered. For his ru…
677 Such power was a thing for the little prince to marvel at. If he had been master of such complete
680 chair. And because he felt a bit sad as he remembered his little planet, which he had forsaken, he
694 “You,” said the little prince firmly.
701 “Then my sunset?” the little prince reminded him: for he never forgot a question once he had
707 “When will that be?” inquired the little prince. “Hum! Hum!” replied the king; and before saying
711 The little prince yawned. He was regretting his lost sunset. And then, too, he was already
712 beginning to be a little bored. “I have nothing more to do here,” he said to the king. “So I shall …
717 to walk.” “Oh, but I have looked already!” said the little prince, turning around to give one more
727 “Yes,” said the little prince, “but I can judge myself anywhere. I do not need to live on this plan…
733 “I,” replied the little prince, “do not like to condemn anyone to death. And now I think I will go …
734 my way.” “No,” said the king. But the little prince, having now completed his preparations for
738 favourable...” As the king made no answer, the little prince hesitated a moment.
744 “The grown-ups are very strange,” the little prince said to himself, as he continued on his journey.
757 saw the little prince coming. For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
759 “Good morning,” said the little prince. “That is a queer hat you are wearing.”
764 “Yes?” said the little prince, who did not understand what the conceited man was talking about.
766 “Clap your hands, one against the other,” the conceited man now directed him. The little prince
768 than the visit to the king,” the little prince said to himself. And he began again to clap his hand…
773 this exercise the little prince grew tired of the game’s monotony. “And what should one do to
777 “Do you really admire me very much?” he demanded of the little prince. “What does that mean,
784 “I admire you,” said the little prince, shrugging his shoulders slightly, “but what is there in tha…
787 And the little prince went away. “The grown-ups are certainly very odd,” he said to himself, as he
795 This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection. “What are you
801 “Why are you drinking?” demanded the little prince.
803 “So that I may forget,” replied the tippler. “Forget what?” inquired the little prince, who already
808 “Ashamed of what?” insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
813 And the little prince went away, puzzled. “The grown-ups are certainly very, very odd,” he said to
818 This man was so much occupied that he did not even raise his head at the little prince’s arrival.
822 “Good morning,” the little prince said to him. “Your cigarette has gone out.”
831 “Five hundred million what?” asked the little prince. “Eh? Are you still there? Five-hundred-and-
835 “Five-hundred-and-one million what?” repeated the little prince, who never in his life had let go of
848 “Millions of those little objects,” he said, “which one sometimes sees in the sky.” “Flies?” “Oh,
866 “This man,” the little prince said to himself, “reasons a little like my poor tippler...” Neverthel…
876 “Yes, that is true,” said the little prince. “And what do you do with them?”
884 The little prince was still not satisfied. “If I owned a silk scarf,” he said, “I could put it arou…
889 number of my stars on a little paper. And then I put this paper in a drawer and lock it with a key.”
895 “It is entertaining,” thought the little prince. “It is rather poetic. But it is of no great
896 consequence.” On matters of consequence, the little prince had ideas, which were very different
904 The businessman opened his mouth, but he found nothing to say in answer. And the little prince
914 The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a
939 “I do not understand,” said the little prince.
955 “Then what?” asked the little prince.
970 little prince watched him, he felt that he loved this lamplighter who was so faithful to his orders.
982 The little prince went on with his explanation: “Your planet is so small that three strides will ta…
988 “Then you’re unlucky,” said the little prince.
992 “That man,” said the little prince to himself, as he continued farther on his journey, “that man
999 two people...” What the little prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to lea…
1008 “Oh, look! Here is an explorer!” he exclaimed to himself when he saw the little prince coming.
1010 The little prince sat down on the table and panted a little. He had already travelled so much and
1015 “What is that big book?” said the little prince. “What are you doing?”
1019 “What is a geographer?” asked the little prince. “A geographer is a scholar who knows the
1022 “That is very interesting,” said the little prince. “Here at last is a man who has a real professio…
1033 “Ah!” The little prince was disappointed. “Has it any mountains?”
1055 “Why is that?” asked the little prince.
1060 “I know some one,” said the little prince, “who would make a bad explorer.”
1075 “Oh, where I live,” said the little prince, “it is not very interesting. It is all so small. I have…
1100 “But extinct volcanoes may come to life again,” the little prince interrupted.
1107 “But what does that mean ‘ephemeral’?” repeated the little prince, who never in his life had let go
1116 “My flower is ephemeral,” the little prince said to himself, “and she has only four thorns to
1121 reputation.” And the little prince went away, thinking of his flower.
1151 When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.
1166 When the little prince arrived on the Earth, he was very much surprised not to see any people. He
1170 “Good evening,” said the little prince courteously.
1174 “What planet is this on which I have come down?” asked the little prince.
1185 The little prince sat down on a stone, and raised his eyes toward the sky.
1192 “I have been having some trouble with a flower,” said the little prince. “Ah!” said the snake. And
1195 “Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversation again. “It is a little lone…
1198 “It is also lonely among men,” the snake said. The little prince gazed at him for a long time.
1204 The little prince smiled. “You are not very powerful. You haven’t even any feet. You cannot even
1208 the little prince’s ankle, like a golden bracelet.
1213 The little prince made no reply. “You move me to pity, you are so weak on this Earth made of
1217 “Oh! I understand you very well,” said the little prince. “But why do you always speak in
1222 The little prince crossed the desert and met with only one flower.
1226 “Good morning,” said the little prince.
1230 “Where are the men?” the little prince asked, politely. The flower had once seen a caravan
1239 “Goodbye,” said the little prince.
1248 After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain. The only mountains he had ever known were
1262 “Who are you?” said the little prince.
1274 But it happened that after walking for a long time through sand, and rocks, and snow, the little
1281 The little prince gazed at them. They all looked like his flower.
1306 “Good morning,” the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw
1311 Who are you?” asked the little prince, and added, “You are very pretty to look at.”
1315 “Come and play with me,” proposed the little prince.
1319 “Ah! Please excuse me,” said the little prince. But, after some thought, he added: “What does
1327 “I am looking for men,” said the little prince. “What does that mean, ‘tame’?”
1332 “No,” said the little prince. “I am looking for friends. What does that mean, ‘tame’?”
1342 “Just that,” said the fox. “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a
1343 hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no
1348 “I am beginning to understand,” said the little prince. “There is a flower... I think that she has
1353 “Oh, but this is not on the Earth!” said the little prince. The fox seemed perplexed, and very
1370 just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun
1377 wheat...” The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. “Please, tame me!” he said.
1379 “I want to, very much,” the little prince replied. “But I have not much time. I have friends to
1387 “What must I do, to tame you?” asked the little prince.
1389 “You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will sit down at a little distance from me,
1391 Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...”
1396 The next day the little prince came back.
1406 “What is a rite?” asked the little prince.
1414 So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near...
1418 “It is your own fault,” said the little prince. “I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted
1423 “But now you are going to cry!” said the little prince.
1433 The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. “You are not at all like my rose,” he said.
1454 “What is essential is invisible to the eye,” the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to
1459 “It is the time I have wasted for my rose...” said the little prince, so that he would be sure to
1465 “I am responsible for my rose,” the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
1467 “Good morning,” said the little prince.
1471 “What do you do here?” the little prince asked.
1477 “They are in a great hurry,” said the little prince. “What are they looking for?”
1482 “Are they coming back already?” demanded the little prince. “These are not the same ones,” said
1485 “Were they not satisfied where they were?” asked the little prince.
1490 “Are they pursuing the first travellers?” demanded the little prince.
1496 “Only the children know what they are looking for,” said the little prince.
1501 “Good morning,” said the little prince.
1511 “Why are you selling those?” asked the little prince.
1522 “As for me,” said the little prince to himself, “if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I
1528 “Ah,” I said to the little prince, “these memories of yours are very charming; but I have not yet
1532 “My friend the fox...” the little prince said to me.
1534 “My dear little man, this is no longer a matter that has anything to do with the fox!”
1544 thirsty. A little sunshine is all he needs...”
1551 come out. Thirst had made me a little feverish, and I looked at them as if I were in a dream. The
1552 little prince’s last words came reeling back into my memory: “Then you are thirsty, too?” I
1557 cross-examine him. He was tired. He sat down. I sat down beside him. And, after a little silence,
1563 “The desert is beautiful,” the little prince added.
1573 “What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well...”
1576 a little boy I lived in an old house, and legend told us that a treasure was buried there. To be su…
1579 said to the little prince. “The house, the stars, the desert — what gives them their beauty is
1582 “I am glad,” he said, “that you agree with my fox.” As the little prince dropped off to sleep, I to…
1591 moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is his loyalty to a flower — the
1596 flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind... And, as I walked on so, I found the we…
1599 “Men,” said the little prince, “set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what
1609 “It is strange,” I said to the little prince. “Everything is ready for use: the pulley, the bucket,…
1613 “Do you hear?” said the little prince. “We have wakened the well, and it is singing...”
1621 “I am thirsty for this water,” said the little prince. “Give me some of it to drink...”
1626 the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present. When I was a little boy, the ligh…
1630 “The men where you live,” said the little prince, “raise five thousand roses in the same garden
1635 “And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water.”
1639 And the little prince added: “But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...”
1644 “You must keep your promise,” said the little prince, softly, as he sat down beside me once more.
1647 I took my rough drafts of drawings out of my pocket. The little prince looked them over, and
1650 “Your baobabs, they look a little like cabbages.”
1652 “Oh!” I had been so proud of my baobabs! “Your fox, his ears look a little like horns; and they are
1655 “You are not fair, little prince,” I said. “I don’t know how to draw anything except boa constricto…
1675 The little prince flushed again. And I added, with some hesitancy: “Perhaps it was because of the
1676 anniversary?” The little prince flushed once more. He never answered questions, but when one
1679 “Ah,” I said to him, “I am a little frightened...”
1684 But I was not reassured. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets
1688 evening, I saw from some distance away my little prince sitting on top of a wall, with his feet
1693 I continued my walk toward the wall. At no time did I see or hear anyone. The little prince,
1699 I was only twenty metres from the wall, and I still saw nothing. After a silence the little prince
1702 the little prince. “I want to get down from the wall.”
1705 the little prince, was one of those yellow snakes that take just thirty seconds to bring your life …
1709 reached the wall just in time to catch my little man in my arms; his face was white as snow.
1726 extraordinary was happening. I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child; and
1732 And he gave me a sad smile. I waited a long time. I could see that he was reviving little by little.
1734 “Dear little man,” I said to him, “you are afraid...” He was afraid, there was no doubt about that.
1770 “Ah, little prince, dear little prince! I love to hear that laughter!”
1777 some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in t…
1795 little bells that knew how to laugh...”
1798 the little prince.
1802 “I shall look as if I were suffering. I shall look a little as if I were dying. It is like that. Do…
1836 I said nothing. He was a little discouraged. But he made one more effort: “You know, it will be
1842 “That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five
1851 He still hesitated a little; then he got up. He took one step. I could not move. There was nothing
1858 them: “I am tired.” Now my sorrow is comforted a little. That is to say, not entirely. But I know
1860 heavy body... and at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little be…
1861 But there is one extraordinary thing... when I drew the muzzle for the little prince, I forgot to a…
1865 flower... At one time I say to myself: “Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her gl…
1874 noise, in the night...” And then the little bells are changed to tears... Here, then, is a great
1877 For you who also love the little prince, and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if
1884 again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little prince appeared on Earth, and
1887 a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and