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the little prince

　　One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times!

　　And a little later you added:

　　You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...

　　Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets?

　　But the little prince made no reply.

[ Chapter 7 ]

　　　　　　- the narrator learns about the secret of the little princes life

　　On the fifth day-- again, as always, it was thanks to the sheep-- the secret of the little princes life was revealed to me. Abruptly, without anything to lead up to it, and as if the question had been born of long and silent meditation on his problem, he demanded:

　　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?

　　I did not know. At that moment I was very busy trying to unscrew a bolt that had got stuck in my engine. I was very much worried, for it was becoming clear to me that the breakdown of my plane was extremely serious. And I had so little drinking-water left that I had to fear for the worst.

　　The thorns-- what use are they?

　　The little prince never let go of a question, once he had asked it. As for me, I was upset over that bolt. And I answered with the first thing that came into my head: