← 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. 🔊✎
← And the whole day he carries on like you: “I’m doing something important! I’m doing something important!” and that makes him swell up with pride. 🔊✎
← He tells himself: ‘My flower is up there somewhere…’ 🔊✎
← He was in the middle of doing something when the little prince arrived and didn’t even take a moment to look up. 🔊✎
← When he lights up his streetlight, it’s like there was another star, or a flower has opened. 🔊✎
← And he lit up his streetlight. 🔊✎
← “I wonder,” he said, “if the stars are lit up so that everyone can find his way back to his own one when he needs to. 🔊✎
← So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I walk all the way up to the grapevines. 🔊✎
← I drew him a muzzle, but my heart felt all knotted up as I gave it to him. 🔊✎
← But he said: “Tonight, the year is up. My star will be exactly over the place where I fell a year ago…” 🔊✎