- The exchange between the narrator and the Prince in chapter 6."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.
- In chapter 7, the aviator accidentally dismisses the prince's fear of losing his rose, and desperately tries to comfort him when he cries, but doesn't know how.I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. - When the prince finally realizes that he must return to his rose, and consequently must abandon his now-tame Fox. It's worse if you've seen the 1974 movie, where the Fox is played by the gentle Gene Wilder."Ah," said the Fox, "I shall cry."
- The Fox's last lesson for the prince, especially if you think of its importance near the end of the book... say with the laughing stars: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.
- "I stopped in my tracks, my heart torn asunder; but still I did not understand."
- The prince revealing he is leaving, and the aviator's response:"I shall not leave you."
- The end when the little prince returns to his asteroid. Or, if you interpret it differently, the prince returns post-mortem.
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