Debo reconocer con orgullo que recién termino de leer a mis 43 años este libro maravilloso y he recorrido sus páginas con los ojos de un niño y no como parte del mundo de los grandes.
La visita del Principito a los distintos planetas me recordó a la que realiza Dante en el Purgatorio, enfrentándose todos los vicios y defectos que tenemos los "adultos".
Hoy dormiré pensando en esa rosa que atesoro y que es Martina, mi hija.
Lo esencial es (y no es) invisible a los ojos.

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This work is a philosophical tale on the meaning of life, existence, and human relationships.
Children and adults alike will read it differently, depending on their level of awareness. It is difficult to "criticize," each drawing its own moral and interpretation ...
What makes The Little Prince a unique, introspective, timeless, universal, and unforgettable masterpiece?

دوروز پیش یعنی 25 دی ماه 93 بالاخره برای بار سوم شازده کوچولو رو تموم کردم
با خودم قرار گذاشتم هر سال یه بار بخونمش تا شازده کوچولو رو فراموش نکنم و دنیا برام رنگ عادت نگیره و هر چیزی که میبینم مثه شازده کوچولو و زوربا شگفت زده ام کنه و این قسمت وجودم همیشه بیدار بمونه

اولین بار ترجمه شاملو رو خوندم و زیاد تحت تاثیرش قرار نگرفتم و بخودم میگفتم این همه تعریف از کتاب برای چی بوده؟؟
بار دوم که کتاب رو خوندم برای همیشه عاشقش شدم
نمیدانم تاثیر دقت کردن در بار دوم بود یا ترجمه زیبای محمد قاضی!!؟؟

شازده كوچولو از سياره اي مي آيد كه تنها يك گل سرخ و چند تا آتشفشان نيمه روشن دارد
شازده كوچولوي ما روزي از خودخواهي و غرور گلش خسته مي شود و از سياره اش خارج مي شود وبه ديگر سيارات سفر مي كند
در هر سياره يكي از خصلت هاي زشت آدم ها با تشبيه هاي ساده به خواننده نشان داده مي شود...
نكته جالب كتاب اين است كه هرازگاهي خواننده ناخودآگاه نگاهش را از روي صفحات كتاب برداشته و نظري مملو از شك به درون خويش مي اندازد تا شبیه يكي از ساكنان اين سياره ها نباشد
اين قدرت كتاب را مي رساند كه انسان را وادار به تامل و تفكر در خود و اعمالش مي نمايد
از جنبه محبوبيت اين كتاب مي توان به اين مورد اشاره كرد كه بعد از كتاب مقدس انجيل دومين كتاب پر فروش دنيا مي باشد.

This book so quite perfectly profound that I love it. Because this is the end of the line and I quite feel no other children's book will not get to this level, I am going to happily retire this category for good.

What an exquisite little book! I went through a series of emotions while reading this book. From hating to liking this book, I was one thing for sure and that was disoriented. I still am and only author can save me from this misery.

n  “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”n

There is no doubt that the book is urging to adults to never forget the child in them.

That "child" can be representation of creativity within them. Being a "child" also means you're sincere about your tasks but never serious. You invite play and imagination into your life. You do not mold yourself to fit to the reality's perception but your mold reality to fit your perception.
Many adults have been accomplished to do so.

So moral of the story is my dear children that Becoming an adult is not about forgetting the child you once were but holding a space where your inner child can express itself freely while being protected by the adult you have become.

n  “You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't 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 the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.” n

Being beautiful is never enough. You might think that if you are beautiful and famous, your life won't be a waste. But what is the point of beauty if you are never loved. What is the point of it, if you die tomorrow and no one shed a single tear or no one misses you in your absence. What is the point of being pretty if the sound of your feet approaching can not make anyone sing in love. Your life will be a huge vain if you have never been loved.

“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”

I related to this quote so much. I remember a year when I was going through a lot, the only think I looked for during the day was either a sunrise or a sunset. They used to be the highlight of my day. How can such a simple sunset can bring you so much happiness?!

n  “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” n

On your path to what you desire you will come across things that you don't desire. In your search of your soul family you will come across people who are the opposite of it so you will know what you really want in your soul family. If you want to meet the love of your life, you will meet people who will teach you how to treat people who you love.

n  “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”n

Nothing has value unless we invest time on it. We make anything or anyone important by spending our most essential resource and that is time. There are thousands of people we meet but some people means more to us than the others because we have invested our time on them.

n  What does tamed mean? Something that is too often been neglected. it means to create ties.
To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be the only boy in all the world. I will be only fox in the world for you.n


n  “Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”n

This is clearly a critique on the materialistic obsession of adults. They only perceive the world with shallow lens but the children sees with a deeper lens even though they have lived less than the adults. Adults experience the world with a superficial lens but children have a better grasp on what really matters.

Don't get deluded into the idea that things are only of value if they can be capitalized. There are so many things you do that are of real value. Just because you don't get paid to do it, doesn't make it less important. Just because your art is not making you money doesn't mean you should stop painting.

If you have read this book then you should sit with it and reread it. It is a masterpiece.

Who should read this book?
Anyone who lost the child within them to become the adult that everyone can rely upon.

Recommended by @Earl

“What is essential is invisible to the eyes.”

Saint-Exupéry’s plane crashes in the middle of the Sahara desert; with limited supplies and no hopes of finding help, his time is short to fix his airship. One day after waking up he finds a beautiful young boy playing on the sand, and starts to wonder if he may be losing his mind. Is he dehydrated and the boy a product of his imagination? Who is that little boy and what on earth is he doing in the middle of the desert? And why does he keeps asking to draw him a sheep?

One of the firsts books I picked up from my parent’s bookcase, if not the very first. A book I read during my teens and deeply LOVED, with a soul shattering ending that I never fully recovered from. To this day I think this is the first book I read with a devastating ending.

A book everyone should try to read at least once in their lifetime, but never force it. I think it’s essential for this book to come just at the right invisible time, and very important to keep an open mind about it. Don’t over analyze it too much, and it should be easy to enjoy. I think any kid can love it, or any adult with a healthy child at heart.

A must read in life. Extremely Recommendable.

*** The Little Prince (2015) is a beautifully touching movie that has much and little to do with the original work. This film is more of a modern retelling of what ‘The Little Prince 1 & 2’ would’ve been, if such a sequel existed. Still, of all the adaptations I’ve watched (which is to say the only one in this case ehem), it’s so VERY worth it. An extremely heartfelt animation and something any reader of the Little Prince would probably love. A fantastic film with gorgeous artwork and an amazing voicing cast. Very Recommendable. Just mind it includes a lot more stuff than just a plain adaptation.



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“Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos.”

El avión de Saint-Exupéry se estrella en medio del desierto del Sahara; con escasos recursos y sin esperanza de hallar ayuda, su tiempo es corto para tratar de arreglar su nave. Un día al despertar se encuentra con un hermoso joven muchacho jugando en la arena, y se empieza a preguntar si tal vez esté perdiendo la cabeza. ¿Está deshidratado y el niño un producto de su imaginación? ¿Quién es ese muchachito y qué por los cielos está haciendo en el medio del desierto? ¿Y por qué sigue insistiendo en que le dibuje una oveja?

Este fue uno de los primeros libros que escogí de la biblioteca de mis viejos, si no es que el mismísimo primero. Un libro que leí durante mi adolescencia y AME profundamente, con un final que parte el alma y del cual nunca llegué a recuperarme completamente. Hasta el día de hoy creo que es el primer libro que leí con un final devastador.

Un libro que todo el mundo debería intentar leer al menos una vez en la vida, pero sin jamás forzarlo. Creo que es esencial que este libro llegue justo en el invisible momento adecuado, y muy importante leerlo con una mente abierta. No sobre analizarlo demasiado, y seguramente será fácil disfrutarlo. Creo que cualquier niño puede amarlo, o cualquier adulto con un niño saludable en su interior.

Un deber para leer en la vida. Extremadamente Recomendable.

*** El Principito (2015) es una hermosamente conmovedora película que tiene mucho y poco que ver con la obra original. Este filme es una especie de recreación moderna de lo que sería ‘El Principito 1 & 2’, si dicha secuela existiera. Igual, de todas las adaptaciones que vi (que dicho sea de paso es una sola en este caso ehem), esta lo vale MUCHO. Una extremadamente emotiva película animada y algo que cualquier lector del Principito probablemente amaría. Una fantástica y bellísima obra artística con un excelente elenco de voces. Muy Recomendable. Sólo sepan que incluye muchas más cosas que una simple adaptación.



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يحدث أن ننبهر بكتابٍ ما، أحيانا نتخطاه وأحيانا أخرى لا نستطيع ذلك ، فـ يبقى محتلا جزءً من الروح وعالقاً في الذاكرة إلى الأبد ..

حسناً كانَ هذا حالي يومَ قرأت الأمير الصغير بكل فلسفته البسيطة وتعبيراته وتوريته لكثير من الأمور ، يومها كنتُ طفلة وكانَ هذا منذ ما يزيد على 12 عاماً ...
ولا يزالْ وأنا أراه اليوم أمامي أتصفحه وأقرأه ..

اعتادَ جورج أورويل أن يقول :
لا أريد أن أتخلى تماماً عن وجهة نظري في العالم التي اكتسبتها في طفولتي. طالما بقيت على قيد الحياة وفي صحة جيدة سأستمر... بحب سطح الأرض، وأن أشعر بالسرور من الأشياء الجامدة والشذرات من المعلومات التي لا فائدة منها.



وأنا أيضاً يا جورج أشاركك هذه الرغبة لا أريد أن أفقد تلكَ الأفكار وتلكَ الرؤية الجميلة والنظرة المختلفة للعالم والتي اكتسبتها في طفولتي ، لا أريد أن أخسر نلكَ الهبة - القدرة المستمرة على الإندهاش والإعجاب ، بدونَ كل هذا سيغدو العالم خواءً
في نظري ..

Noticing that I enjoy reading French books, people often ask me how to begin. I usually tell them to pick up a copy of Le petit prince and start reading: after a while, things will fall into place. Having tried it a fair amount myself, I can report that this method works, but there are clear drawbacks. It takes a while, since you're figuring out what words mean by comparing different contexts of occurrence, and most often you've forgotten the last time you saw that word you know you recognise. Worse, if you're just guessing how words are pronounced by reading them, you'll usually guess the wrong pronunciation.

To make it easier for people who enjoy learning language by reading, we've been developing the LARA platform. Things have now progressed far enough that I'm going to change my advice: if you want to learn to read French, pick up the LARA editor of Le petit prince and start reading. You'll find it here; use Chrome or Firefox, other browsers are not yet well supported.

The LARA version has been designed to make it as easy as possible to use the learning-by-reading method. The whole text has been read by Hossein Khooshideh, a gifted Iranian-Swiss 12 year old who's done a really nice job of it; click on any speaker icon to hear Hossein read the preceding sentence. If you're unsure what a word means, you can get a translation by hovering your mouse over it, or you can see all the places where it occurs in the text by clicking.

Bonne lecture !
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[Update, May 5 2021]

I've added some improvements to the online text: you can now hover over a pencil icon to get an English translation of the preceding sentence, and there's an audio control at the top of each page that lets you listen to a whole chapter with one click.

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[Update, May 17 2022]

Another improvement we've just added: if you go to the new edition and click 'Sounds' at the top of any text page, you'll have a version where you can spell through words one sound at a time. Hovering will highlight phonetically meaningful letter groups. So for example, in the word "prince", hovering shows that "in" is a single phonetic unit. Clicking plays the sound and also shows it to you on the right together with other words where the same sound occurs.

On the bottom right, there are links to alphabetic and frequency-ordered sound indexes. The top lines are interesting: you can see that the most common sound value for a letter in French is that it's silent, and the second most common is the hard-to-pronounce French 'r'. The three different varieties of 'e' are all in the top 10.

A children's book that is for adults. A moral allegory too full of symbols. For me it feels that the author struggled to include as many symbols as possible in as few pages as possible. I do not agree with all of the author's ideas. The repeteaded motive that grown ups are bad/wrong/ going nowhere felt rude. Also the little prince is quite annoying.

An enigma, are we supposed to think just a children's tale...no I think not for the beautiful, simple prose alone says differently. The writer's heart is too apparently showing, his feelings has pathos yes, which tells a story rich with sadness and melancholy, yet euphoric underneath. An alien being is found by a pilot that crashed in the immense Sahara Desert hundreds of miles from the nearest human. A short supply of water makes him desperate and a dream appears on the plane while the man is trying to fix the machine before it's too late. Seems like a survival plot however much more in fact, the author was a veteran pilot himself with a pair of plane wrecks, including one in the same desert as described here. The two's interactions are fun to read, their exchanges bring life to the proceedings as they charm, not cloy the narrative... The little prince narrates his travels on tiny asteroids he euphemistically calls planets, smaller than his. A not too subtle solid sharp jab at men's foolishness ...
and lack of judgement, in other words stupidity. Giving strange accounts of the six lone men in each world, eccentric is a mild word for their behavior. Whether, king, vain man, drunk, businessman, street lamp lighter or maybe the weirdest ..a book writer. Nevertheless I believe the fable is about how kindness between people is needed for our world to survive, it is obvious since the novel was written during the worst war in history. As two beings get to know one another though from lands far away, habits, customs, societies quite alien, but living, intelligent animals are basically the same underneath the skin. Trust most wanted, a must for the living. An astonishing allegory of what needs to be an actuality.

L’IMMAGINAZIONE AL POTERE

Ma i grandi non capiranno mai che questo abbia tanta importanza.


Illustrazione originale di Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

2nd read:

you know, I’m glad I was born a dreamer.

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1st read:

n   “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” n

FORMAT READ: Paperback
SIMILAR VIBES: A Monster Calls, Bridge to Terabithia

This book turned out to be so much deeper than I expected before I read it. I thought it would be the type of children's novel that was simply 2 sentences per page, but it wasn't.

The message of the story was so well presented that I wondered how come I have not read this before when it seems like everyone around me already has.


And I don't think the most important thing in the book is if the little prince is real because I guess that will always depend on the reader but I think the most important thing is how we choose to represent the people, the objects and the planets into real life. I think I was just bursting the whole time on how good the story is and the book isn't even that long. The quotes, the metaphors made me want to cry out how perfect they were and I don't think I even have the right worshippers to describe reading my feelings the time I read this book.



“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”


The clearest message of the story to me, personally, was how it is us who decides and creates the importance of the things in our lives. Like how a random person can end up being your best friend, your most trusted companion. . . but to other people that same person may just be another normal person they pass by every day. It is how much time, care you invest into, not just objects, but people as well.

And I think this is why you should never listen to other people when they say that one think isn't important or one thing doesn't matter. They aren't you and only you can decide what is important to you.




This story is definitely one of those stories that you have to actually read first before you can even begin to understand what I am talking about. So if you have to read this wonderful, wise, entertaining, truthful, gift of a book. . . go on and JUST. READ. IT.

“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”



// disclaimer: this review is probably messed up and has a lot of correction but I just really had the urge to review this book.


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