I had thus learned a second
fact of great importance: this
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But that did not really surprise me much. I knew very well that in addition to the great pla***s-- such as the Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Venus-- to which we have given names, there are also hundreds of others, some of which are so small that one has a
wedding dress hard time seeing them through the telescope. When an astronomer
canton fair hotels discovers one of these he does not give it a name, but only a number. He might call it, for example, "Asteroid 325."
I have serious reason to believe that the pla*** from which the little prince came is the asteroid known as B-612. This asteroid has only once been seen through the telescope. That was by a Turkish astronomer, in 1909.
On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International
excavator Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what he said.
Grown-ups are
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Fortunately, however, for the reputation of Asteroid B-612, a Turkish dictator made a law that his subjects, under pain of death, should change to European costume. So in 1920 the astronomer gave his demonstration all over again, dressed
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If I have told you these
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moncler coat he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand: "How old is he? How many brothers
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If you were to say to the grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made
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Just so, you might say to them: "The
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iwc watches anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists." And what good would it do to tell them that? They would shrug their shoulders, and treat you like a child. But if you said to them: "The pla*** he came from is Asteroid
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They are like that. One must not
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tag indifference. I should have liked to begin this story in the fashion of the fairy-tales. I should have like to say: "Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a pla*** that was scarcely any bigger than himself, and
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To those who understand life, that would have given a much greater air of truth to my story.
For I do not want any one to read my
rolex book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a
wholesale bags from china friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may be***e like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures...
It is for that purpose, again, that I have bought a box of
mechanical seals paints and some pencils. It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa constrictor from the inside, since I was six. I shall certainly try to make
max tn m y portraits as true to life as possible. But I am not at all sure of success. One drawing goes along all right, and another has no resemblance to its subject. I make some errors, too, in the littl e prince‘s height: in one place he is too tall and in another too short. And I feel some doubts about the color of his costume. So I fumble along as best I can, now good, now bad, and I hope generally fair-to-middling.
s pla***, his departure from it, his journey. The information would ***e very slowly, as it might chance to fall from his thoughts. It was in this way that I heard, on the third day, about the catastrophe of the baobabs.
This time, once more, I had the sheep to
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Indeed, as I learned, there were on the pla*** where the little
north face clothing prince lived-- as on all pla***s-- good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants, and bad seeds from bad plants. But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth‘s darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed will stretch itself and begin-- timidly at first-- to push a charming little sprig inoffensively upward toward the sun. If it is only a sprout of radish or the sprig of a rose-bush, one would let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, one must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it.
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