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My picture number 1. It looked like this: 🔊

My drawing number 2 looked like this: 🔊

I was too discouraged by the way people treated my drawing number 1 and my drawing number 2. 🔊

When I find one who seems a bit different from the others, I try the experiment of showing them my drawing number 1, which Ive always kept. I want to know if they really understand anything. 🔊

If I have told you all these details about asteroid B 612 and even given you its number, its because of the grown-ups. 🔊

Grown-ups love numbers. If you tell them about your new friend, they never ask you anything important. 🔊

But of course, people like us who understand what life is about are not so bothered with numbers. 🔊

And I could become like those grown-up people who are only interested in numbers. 🔊

He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved anyone. All he has ever done is add up numbers. 🔊

It means I write the number of stars on a bit of paper. And then I lock that bit of paper in a drawer.” 🔊

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