Modern Classics · The Little Prince
Read sentences from The Little Prince and answer the questions
A copying notebook for slowly reading sentences from The Little Prince and tracing the ones that stay with you.
Read the question that follows each sentence, and write down the thoughts that come to mind.
How it works
- Slowly trace the sentence that stays with you.
- Read the question that follows the sentence.
- Write down the thoughts that came to mind.
When · with whom
Good when you want to think again about what can't be seen, and about relationships tended over a long time.
Passages chosen from The Little Prince
- All grown-ups were once children. / How much do you remember the child you once were?
- Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves. / Do you still have the eyes that understood without any explanation?
- It's a matter of discipline. / What world of yours falls apart unless you tend it a little every day?
- If someone loves a flower of which just one exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make them happy just looking at the stars. / What would be, for you, 'all the stars going out'?
- I should have judged her by her deeds, not her words. / Is there someone in your life you were too young to know how to love?
- 'I thought I was rich because I had a flower like no other in the world, and all I had was an ordinary rose. / When what you believed was special turned out to be ordinary, what preciousness still remained for you?
- What does 'to tame' mean? / Who made you no longer 'one among a hundred thousand'?
- Goodbye. / What precious thing of yours do you keep forgetting because it can't be seen?
- It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important. / What relationship do you want to be responsible for to the very end?
- Whether it's a house, a star, or a desert, what makes it beautiful is the treasure hidden somewhere deep inside... / Where is beautiful to you 'because a treasure is hidden there'?


