Antoine de Saint - Exupéry - The little prince
The book, as a soul symbol: I've red in a psychological essay that the planets in The Little Prince are soul symbols. This inspired me to design a "planet" book, which is now symbolises the soul of the reader - this refers to the changes that The Little Prince story generates inside our souls.
The "planet" book transforms into stars in the dark. The little prince said to the pilot: “In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night." - Exupéry
Music: "Morning Love" by the amazing Carlos Cipa <3
To Leon Werth
I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. (...) All grown-ups were once children--although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication: To Leon Werth when he was a l i t t l e boy.
Chapter 1 - Hat or boa?
"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”
Chapter 3 - The airplane
"That is not an object. It flies. It is an airplane. It is my airplane."
Chapter 4 - Shape of the little prince
If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. (So the Pilot made the iconic drawing of the little prince.)
Chapter 5 - The baobab
A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces...
Chapter 6 - The sunset
"I saw the sunset forty-four times!"
Chapter 7 - The thorns
A sheep - if it eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too?" - "A sheep," I answered, "eats anything it finds in its reach."
"Even flowers that have thorns?" - "Yes, even flowers that have thorns."
"Then the thorns - what use are they?"
Chapter 8 - The preparation of the Rose
"The flower was not satisfied to complete the preparations for her beauty in the shelter of her green chamber.
It was only in the full radiance of her beauty that she wished to appear. And her mysterious adornment lasted for days and days.
Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself."
Chapter 9 - The birds
"I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds."
Chapter 11 - The conceited man
"Do you really admire me very much?" he demanded of the little prince.
"What does that mean 'admire'?"
"To admire means that you regard me as the handsomest, the best-dressed, the richest, and the most intelligent man on this planet."
("LEG" prefix expresses superlative level in hungarian:)
Chapter 13 - The businessman
He’s always counting. "Three and two make five. Five and seven make twelve. Twelve and three make fifteen. Good morning. Fifteen and seven make twenty-two. Twenty-two and six make twenty-eight. I haven't time to light it again. Twenty-six and five make thirty-one. Phew! Then that makes five-hundred-and-one million, six-hundred-twenty-two-thousand, seven-hundred-thirty-one."
"Millions of what?" - "Stars"
Chapter 14 - The lamplighter
"Good morning. Why have you just put out your lamp?" - "Those are the orders," replied the lamplighter. "Good morning."
"What are the orders?" - "The orders are that I put out my lamp. Good evening." And he lighted his lamp again.
Chapter 15 - The geographer
"What is a geographer?" asked the little prince.
"A geographer is a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts."
Chapter 16. - The Earth
Lamplighters all around the world set their lamps alight one after another, as if they were part of a global dance.
Chapter 17 - The snake
When the little prince arrived on the Earth, he was very much surprised not to see any people. He was beginning to be afraid he had come to the wrong planet, when a coil of gold, the color of the moonlight, flashed across the sand.
“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…”
“It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”
"And they were both silent."
Chapter 18 - The flower
"People have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
Chapter 19 - The echo
"Good morning," he said courteously. - "Good morning--Good morning--Good morning," answered the echo.
"Who are you?" said the little prince. - "Who are you--Who are you--Who are you?" answered the echo.
"Be my friends. I am all alone," he said. - "I am all alone--all alone--all alone," answered the echo.
Chapter 20 - The rose garden
He was standing before a garden, all a-bloom with roses. And he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden! And he lay down in the grass and cried.
“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since (...) she's my rose.
Chapter 21 - The fox
“I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" - "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
"What is essential is _______* to the eye."
*invisible
Chapter 22 - The railway
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
Chapter 24 - Looking for the well
I am thirsty, too. Let us look for a well..." - "What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..."
"The house, the stars, the desert--what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"
And, as I walked on so, I found the well, at daybreak.
Chapter 25 - Fresh water
"I am thirsty for this water," said the little prince. - This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.
Chapter 26 - The stone wall & the stars
"Beside the well there was the ruin of an old stone wall."
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”
In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night..You, only you, will have stars that can laugh!
“You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”
Perhaps the sheep has eaten the flower...
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not!" Then I am happy.
But at another time I say to myself yes, and then the little bells (stars) are changed to tears...
“Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...”
