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望着天空，问问你们本身：绵羊究竟是吃了还是没有吃掉花？那么你们就会发明所看到的统统都变了样……任何一个大人将永久不会明白这个题目竟如此首要！

But there is one extraordinary thing... when I drew the muzzle for the little prince, I forgot to add the leather strap to it. He will never have been able to fasten it on his sheep. So now I keep wondering: what is happening on his planet Perhaps the sheep has eaten the flower...

Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no Has the sheep eaten the flower And you will see how everything changes...

But at another time I say to myself: "At some moment or other one is absent-minded, and that is enough! On some one evening he forgot the glass globe, or the sheep got out, without making any noise, in the night..." And then the little bells are changed to tears...

这真是非常奇异。对你们这些也喜好小王子的人来讲，就像我一样，不管在宇宙的甚么处所，在某处我们不晓得的处所，有一只我们永久也见不到的绵羊，吃掉了，或者没有吃掉一朵玫瑰，统统都会截然分歧。

And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!

This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little prince appeared on Earth, and disappeared.

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对我来讲，这是天下上最美也是最苦楚的风景。它与前面某页的插画一样。但我还是在这里重画一次，以便加深你们的影象。就是在这里，小王子呈现在地球上，厥后，也恰是在这里消逝了的。