| lpp_1943.125 |
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He tossed his head gently , without taking his eyes from my plane : " It is true that on that you can n't have come from very far away ... " |
| lpp_1943.1250 |
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And , without saying anything more , I looked across the ridges of sand that were stretched out before us in the moonlight . |
| lpp_1943.1251 |
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" The desert is beautiful , " the little prince added . |
| lpp_1943.1252 |
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And that was true . |
| lpp_1943.1253 |
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I have always loved the desert . |
| lpp_1943.1254 |
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One sits down on a desert sand dune , sees nothing , hears nothing . |
| lpp_1943.1255 |
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Yet through the silence something throbs , and gleams ... |
| lpp_1943.1256 |
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" What makes the desert beautiful , " said the little prince , " is that somewhere it hides a well ... " |
| lpp_1943.1257 |
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I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands . |
| lpp_1943.1258 |
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When I was a little boy I lived in an old house , and legend told us that a treasure was buried there . |
| lpp_1943.1259 |
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To be sure , no one had ever known how to find it ; perhaps no one had ever even looked for it . |