Two wooden chairs face an arched window overlooking a violet sunset, with a patterned throw on one chair.

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The Little Prince · 1943

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

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Sadness makes sunsets feel precious, the little prince says. The narrator asks whether he was that sad on the day of the forty-four sunsets. He gives no answer, and the silence says more than words would.

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