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The Little PrinceBook

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Who uses, recommends or left The Little Prince, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Maria Popova
Writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a long-running reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy.
loved

the author of The Little Prince, which is of course one of the most beloved—I hesitate to say “children’s books” of all time because I consider it really a work of philosophy and deep, deep psychological insight. In fact, I reread it about once a year, every year

The Tim Ferriss Show, "Books I’ve Loved — Maria Popova and Tyler Cowen (#436)"; in a "Books I've Loved" solo episode. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2020-06-15·tim.blog ↗

Fiona Fung
Leads the Claude Code and Cowork teams at Anthropic; earlier at Microsoft and Meta.
recommended

the one book I always recommend to everyone to read at least once a year or you know um The Little Prince.

Lenny's Podcast, "What happens after coding is solved?", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).

2026-06-21·youtube.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

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