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Antoine De
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“You become responsible,

forever, for what you have
tamed.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Character

The Little Prince The Fox

Concept

responsibility

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“But the conceited man did not

hear him. Conceited people
never hear anything but praise.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character Concept

The Vain Man ego

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“Well, I must endure the

presence of a few caterpillars if I
wish to become acquainted with
the butterflies.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince patience

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“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
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 people, too,” said the snake.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Characters

The Little Prince ᐧ The Snake

Concept

loneliness

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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock

pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within
him the image of a cathedral.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concepts

dreams ᐧ appreciation
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“When someone blushes,

doesn’t that mean ‘yes’?”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concepts

love ᐧ character

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“I have lived a great deal among

grown-ups. I have seen them
intimately, close at hand. And
that hasn’t much improved my
opinion of them.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince adults

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“Only the children know what

they are looking for.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character Concept

The Little Prince children

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“But the eyes are blind. One

must look with the heart.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character Concepts

The Little Prince love ᐧ faith

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“All men have stars, but they are

not the same things for different
people. For some, who are
travelers, the stars are guides.
For others they are no more
than little lights in the sky. For
others, who are scholars, they
are problems... But all these
stars are silent. You-You alone
will have stars as no one else
has them.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince stars

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“And now here is my secret, a

very simple secret: It is only with
the heart that one can see
rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Character

The Little Prince The Fox

Concepts

love ᐧ faith

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“It is much more difficult to

judge oneself than to judge
others. If you succeed in judging
yourself rightly, then you are
indeed a man of true wisdom.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concepts

judgement ᐧ wisdom

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“All grown-ups were once

children... but only few of them
remember it.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince children

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“It is the time you have wasted

for your rose that makes your
rose so important.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince time

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“I am who I am and I have the

need to be.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince character

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“The most beautiful things in the

world cannot be seen or
touched, they are felt with the
heart.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Character

The Little Prince The Fox

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Concepts
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love ᐧ appreciation
“No one is ever satisfied where
he is.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character

The Railway Switchman

Concepts

dreams ᐧ character

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“One day, I watched the sun

setting forty-four times......You
know...when one is so terribly
sad, one loves sunsets.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince sadness

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“People where you live,” the little

prince said, “grow five thousand
roses in one garden... Yet they
don’t find what they’re looking
for... And yet what they’re
looking for could be found in a
single rose.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character Concept

The Little Prince appreciation

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“It is such a mysterious place,

the land of tears.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concept

The Little Prince sadness

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“What matters most are the

simple pleasures so abundant
that we can all enjoy
them...Happiness doesn’t lie in
the objects we gather around
us. To find it, all we need to do is
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 open our eyes.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concepts

happiness ᐧ appreciation

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“What makes the desert

beautiful,′ said the little prince,
‘is that somewhere it hides a
well...”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character Concept

The Little Prince appreciation

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“Grown-ups never understand

anything by themselves, and it
is tiresome for children to be
always and forever explaining
things to them.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concepts

children ᐧ wisdom
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“The proof that the little prince

existed is that he was charming,
that he laughed, and that he
was looking for a sheep. If
anybody wants a sheep, that is
a proof that he exists.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character

The Little Prince

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“To forget a friend is sad. Not

everyone has had a friend.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concepts

friendship ᐧ sadness

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“Words are the source of

misunderstandings.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Character

The Little Prince The Fox

Concept

words
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“Men have no more time to

understand anything. They buy
ready-made things in the
shops. But since there are no
shops where you can buy
friends, men no longer have any
friends.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Character

The Little Prince The Fox

Concepts

friendship ᐧ time

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“Sometimes, there is no harm in

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 putting off a piece of work until
another day.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concept

procrastination

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“It’s all a great mystery...Look up

at the sky and you’ll see how
everything changes.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Concepts

stars ᐧ change

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 “If you love a flower which
happens to be on a star, it is
sweet at night to gaze at the sky.
All the stars are a riot of flowers.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Concepts

The Little Prince love ᐧ stars

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“Grown ups are certainly very

strange.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character Concept

The Little Prince adults

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“Of course I love you. It is my

fault that you have not known it
all the while.”

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Characters

The Little Prince ᐧ The Rose

Concept

love

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 “And when your sorrow is
comforted (time soothes all
sorrows) you will be content that
you have known me.

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character

The Little Prince

Concepts

time ᐧ sadness

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Look up at the sky. Ask yourself,

“Has the sheep eaten the flower
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 or not?” And you’ll see how
everything changes. . . . And no
grown-up will ever understand
how such a thing could be so
important!

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book

The Little Prince

Character

The Little Prince

Concepts

adults ᐧ change

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judgement wisdom

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sadness happiness

friendship words

procrastination change

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