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III ●▽● It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who
asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was
from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to
me. The first time he saw my airplane, for instance (I shall not draw my
airplane; that would be much too complicated for me), he asked me: "What
is that object?" "That is not an object. It flies. It is an airplane.
It is my airplane." And I was proud to have him learn that I could fly. He
cried out, then: "What! You dropped down from the sky?"
"Yes," I answered, modestly. "Oh! That is funny!" And the
little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very
much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. Then he added: "So you,
too, come from the sky! Which is your planet?"

 

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that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable mystery of his
presence; and I demanded, abruptly: "Do you come from another
planet?" But he did not reply. He tossed his head gently, without taking
his eyes from my plane: "It is true that on that you can't have come from
very far away..." And he sank into a reverie, which lasted a long time.
Then, taking my sheep out of his pocket, he buried himself in the contemplation
of his treasure. You can imagine how my curiosity was aroused by this
half-confidence about the "other planets." I made a great effort,
therefore, to find out more on this subject. "My little man, where do you
come from? What is this 'where I live,' of which you speak? Where do you want
to take your sheep?" After a reflective silence he answered: "The
thing that is so good about the box you have given me is that at night he can
use it as his house." "That is so. And if you are good I will give
you a string, too, so that you can tie him during the day, and a post to tie
him to." But the little prince seemed shocked by this offer: "Tie
him! What a queer idea!" "But if you don't tie him," I said,
"he will wander off somewhere, and get lost." My friend broke into
another peal of laughter: "But where do you think he would go?"
"Anywhere. Straight ahead of him." Then the little prince said,
earnestly: "That doesn't matter. Where I live, everything is so
small!" And, with perhaps a hint of sadness, he added: "Straight
ahead of him, nobody can go very far..."

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