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Jun 30, 2019kwsmith rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye." Written during World War II, this classic children's story contrasts the different ways that children and adults view the world. Over time, this remarkable little book became the most popular non-religious text ever published. Saint-Exupéry was a pioneering aviator who survived a 1935 plane crash in the Libyan desert where he suffered vivid dehydration-induced hallucinations before being rescued by a Bedouin on a camel. Not surprisingly, The Little Prince story begins with a pilot who has crashed in the desert and meets a small strange visitor from outer space. Shortly after The Little Prince was published, Saint-Exupéry vanished in another plane crash in the Mediterranean. He was presumed dead, but I like to think that he met his own Little Prince at the end of his story.