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What makes the desert so beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a spring." Perhaps we can simply understand this sentence as: what makes life so beautiful is the sincerity and childlike innocence that we hide. "The Little Prince" is a fairy tale, but not a fairy tale in the ordinary sense, it is full of thinking about human life, is a so-called "philosophical fairy tale". The Little Prince was written by Saint-Exupery during his exile in the United States after his demobilization. In that turbulent era, war destroyed many people's good faith, and this book also contains his thoughts on the value of human existence, people's pursuit of material and the deceived mind. This book doesn't say anything big, it doesn't even "tell" anything, it has nothing to do with preaching. Everything is in this picturesque story, in the stars, in the desert, in the spring, in the little prince's silver bell laughter. It's as plain and touching as truth.