我還從未講過這個故事。火伴們得知我返航，都為我活著返來而歡暢。我很哀痛。但是，我奉告他們：“我隻是有點累。”

到現在，已經有六年疇昔了……

I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive. I was sad, but I told them: "I am tired."Now my sorrow is comforted a little. That is to say― not entirely. But I know that he did go back to his planet, because I did not find his body at daybreak. It was not such a heavy body... and at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells...

Here, then, is a great mystery. For you who also love the little prince, and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has― yes or no― eaten a rose...

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...