I then drew the inside of the boa constrictor so adults could understand. He did not have the appearance of a child lost in the middle of the desert, a thousand miles from any inhabited region. Fortunately for asteroid B 612's reputation, a Turkish dictator forced his people, under penalty of death, to dress European.
And indeed, on the planet of the little prince there were, as on all the planets, good grasses and weeds. They sleep in the secret of the earth until it feels like one of them to wake up. When you have finished your morning toilet, you must carefully do the toilet of the planet.
And one day he advised me to use a beautiful drawing to bring it into the minds of the children in my house. You may wonder: Why aren't there other drawings in this book that are as magnificent as the drawing of baobabs. So the day of the 44 times you were so upset?” But the little prince did not answer.
On the fifth day, always thanks to the sheep, this secret of the little prince's life was revealed to me.
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The little prince suspected that she was not too modest, but she was so touching. And the little prince, all confused, had found a watering can of fresh water and served the flower. There are no tigers on my planet,” the little prince protested, “and then the tigers don't eat grass.”
I shouldn't have listened to him," he confided in me one day, "you should never listen to flowers. The little prince looked for eyes to sit down, but the planet was confused with the magnificent ermine cloak. I," replied the little prince, "don't like to condemn to death, and I believe I'm going.".
When the king had made no reply, the little prince hesitated at first, and then departed with a sigh. This is more amusing than the visit to the king,” said the little prince to himself. I admire you," said the little prince, shrugging his shoulders a little, "but how can that interest you?".
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repeated the little prince, who had never turned down a question in his life once he had asked it. The little prince had very different ideas about serious things from the adult's ideas. The little prince could not explain how a street lamp and a lamp lighter could be used, somewhere in the sky, on a planet without a house or population.
The little prince looked at him and he loved this lighter that was so true to the. If you want to rest, you walk. and the day lasts as long as you want. That one, said the little prince, as he continued his journey, he would be despised by all the others, by the king, by the vain people, by the drinker, by the businessman.
What the little prince did not dare to admit was that he regretted this blessed planet, especially because of the thousand four hundred and forty sunsets in twenty-four hours. Because an explorer who lies would cause catastrophe in the geography books.” And also an explorer who would drink too much. repeated the little prince, who had never given up on a question in his life once he had asked it.
My flower is short-lived,” thought the little prince, “and it has only four thorns to defend itself against the world. Then came the turn of the street lamp lighters of Russia and India.
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Only the lighter of the single street lamp of the North Pole, and his colleague of the only street lamp of the South Pole, led lives of idleness and nonchalance: they worked twice a year. I wonder," he said, "if the stars light up so that each one may one day find his own. The one I touch, I return to the earth from which he came,” he said again.
I understood very well, said the little prince, but why do you always speak in riddles.
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From a mountain like this," he said to himself, "I shall suddenly see the whole planet and all the men." But he perceived nothing but sharp needles of stone. But it happened that the little prince, after passing through the sand, the rocks, and the snow for a long time, discovered a way. I will," answered the little prince, "but I have not much time." I have friends to discover and much to know.
It is your fault," said the little prince, "I did not wish you harm, but you wanted me to tame you." The essential is invisible to the eyes," repeated the little prince to remember it. It is the time I lost for my rose,” said the little prince to remember it.
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I made a gesture of fatigue: it is absurd to randomly search for a source in the vastness of the desert. After we had walked in silence for hours, night fell and the stars began to shine. And after a pause he said: 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see.
Yes," I said to the little prince, "whether it's the house, the stars or the desert, what makes their beauty invisible. When the little prince fell asleep, I took him in my arms, and left again. In the light of the moon, I look at those pale eyebrows, those closed eyes, the locks of hair shaking in the wind, and I say to myself: “What I see here is just a bark.
While his half-open lips half-smiled, I said to myself: “What moves me so strongly. Men," said the little prince, "they go into the rapids, but they don't know what they're looking for." Then they move and turn in circles. It's strange," I said to the little prince, "everything is ready: the reel, the bucket and the rope.
And the pulley groaned as an old weather vane groaned when the wind had been long asleep. In my ears came the song of the pulley, and in the still trembling water I saw the sun quivering. It was born from the march under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms.
The men of your house," said the little prince, "grow five thousand roses in the same garden, and they do not find what they are looking for.". And yet what they seek may be found in a single rose or a little water. You must keep your promise," said the little prince who sat down next to me again.
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Do you have any good poison?” Are you sure you won't make me suffer for long?”. He stood there, facing the little prince, one of those yellow snakes that you execute in thirty seconds. I held him in my arms like a little child, and yet it seemed to me as if he were flowing vertically into an abyss without anything to hold him back.
If you love a flower that is in a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. The one you gave me to drink was like music, because of the reel and the rope. If you look at the sky at night, since I will live in one of them, since I will laugh in one of them, then it will be to you as if all the stars were laughing." You will have stars that can laugh.
And when you are comforted (we always are) you will be glad you knew me. It will be as if I had given, instead of stars, many little bells that know how to laugh.
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