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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Will you draw me a sheep? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For a long time your only entertainment was the pleasure of sunsets. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Men set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round. It is not worth the trouble -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And in that dismal restaurant, surrounded by the simple government clerks who sat there repairing the wear and tear of their humble daily tasks, my broad-shouldered messmate seemed to me strangely noble; beneath his rough hide I could discern the angel who had vanquished the dragon. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden ... yet they don't find what they are looking for. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And yet he's the only person I don't find ridiculous. Maybe it's because he's looking after something other than himself. He -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself correctly, then you are truly a man of wisdom. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's hard luck always having to be a judge. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We don't ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
...In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No one hated these ghost of mine, no one envied them, no one pestered them. Nor did anyone love them with the only love that matters. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You just talk like grown-ups! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little. What matters is the live catch the fisherman draws up from the depths of the sea, the flashings of silver that we see gleam within the net. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But I made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
My footfall rang in a universe that was not theirs. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond
myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him ... The land of tears is so mysterious. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I still fall for your everyday. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work together in the same direction. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If one let's oneself be tamed, one runs the risk of weeping. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The land of tears is so mysterious. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have a vital need for peace. I seek no personal end, no approval from public opinion. Everything now is a struggle with myself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The squall has ceased to be a cause of my complaint. The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when the night has fallen, I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?' the king demanded. 'The general, or myself? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags with three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The traveler who crosses a mountain in the direction of a star runs the risk of forgetting which is his guiding star if he concentrates too exclusively on the climbing problems. If he only acts for action's sake, he will get nowhere. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range ... which haven't much improved my opinion of them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it : it is yours. So with me : I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower ... I think that she has tamed me ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I needed to believe that those on whom I depended for my orientations were more fixed and enduring that myself. So as to know where to return to. So as to continue existing. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And I love to listen to the stars at night. It is like listening to five hundred million little bells ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Each time I stopped I stripped myself of something vitally important. I was, becoming my own enemy! And I can't tell you how it hurt me when I found that out. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One only really sees with the heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's only with the heart one sees clearly, for what's essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One sees clearly only with the heart, anything that is essential is invisible to the eye.- The Little Prince -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Only the children know what they are looking for. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince - He was one of the first books I read and I sincerely love -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
By absorbing myself in the passion of party politics, I risk forgetting that politics are meaningless unless they serve a spiritual truth. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
There is no hope of joy except in human relations. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One feels rather lonely in the dessert.'
'It is just as lonely among men. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her ... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns ... to protect me. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
My flower is somewhere out there... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's all a great mystery ... Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Everyone seems inspired by some religion that promises fulfillment. Within the clashing words we are all expressing the same impulses. We are divided over methods which are the fruit of our reasoning, but not over our goals, which are identical. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Heavy clouds were putting out the stars -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To forget a friend is sad. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
My flower is ephemeral," the little prince said to himself, "and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her on my planet, all alone!"
That was his first moment of regret. But he took courage once more. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
His work has some meaning. When he lights his street lamp, it is as if he brought one more star to life, or one flower. When he puts out his lamp, he sends the flower, or the star, to sleep. That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
So life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel ourselves rich; and then come other years when time does its work and our plantation is made sparse and thin. One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive us of their shade. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'
And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'
'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'
But the prince made no answer. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully ... " Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them ... On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I hunt chickens , men hunt me,All the chickens are just alike,and all the men are just alike.and in consequence, i am little bored,but if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If I differ from you, far from wronging you, I add something to you. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You are beautiful, but you are empty", he went on. "One could not die for you. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And he sank into reverie, which lasted a long time. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them ... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night ... You - only you - will have stars that can laugh. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You know, I used to sweat sometimes when I was digging. My rheumatism would pull at my leg, and I would damn myself for a slave. And now, do you know, I'd like to spade and spade. It's beautiful work. A man is free when he is using a spade. And besides, who is going to prune my trees when I am gone? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man ... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Happiness! It is useless to seek it elsewhere than in this warmth of human relations. Our sordid interests imprison us within their walls. Only a comrade can grasp us by the hand and haul us free. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while (the flower to little prince) -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens ... they will all be your friends.
-the little prince -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation." -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One must observe the proper rites. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Ah, that is interesting! Are there chickens?"
"No."
"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I should tolerate the closeness of 2-3 caterpillars, if I want to get to know butterflies -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck. I felt his heart beating like the heart of a dying bird, shot with someone's rifle ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You're lovely but you're empty,' he went on. 'One couldn't die for you -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Somewhere along the way we have gone astray. The human anthill is richer than ever before. We have more wealth and more leisure, and yet we lack something essential, which we find it difficult to describe. We feel less human; somewhere we have lost our mysterious prerogatives. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But, personally, I'm afraid I can't see sheep inside boxes. Perhaps I'm a bit like the grown-ups. I've had to grow old. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's good to have a friend. Even if you're going to die. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Language is the source of misunderstandings. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But who will bang on their doors demanding entry? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. she perfumed my planet and lit up my life. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body when me. It's too heavy"
I said nothing.
"But it will be like an abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face, in personal crotchets. When we lose a friend, it is probably his faults that we mourn. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To live is to be born slowly. it would be a little too easy to borrow ready-made souls! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Tout objectif sans plan n'est qu'un souhait. [A goal without a plan is just a wish.] -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
So, my friend, I need you as I need a high place where I can breathe freely. I need to sit beside you, once more ... celebrating a smile as calm as the day itself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world
- the little prince -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
All the people? There are a few, I think, six or seven. I glimpsed them years ago. But you never know where to find them. The wind blows them about. They don't have roots, which causes them a lot of problems. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Then you shall judge yourself," answered the king. "That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I don't much like assuming the tone of a moralist. But the danger of baobabs is so little recognized, and the risks run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid are so considerable, that for once I am making an exception to my habitual reserve. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is your own fault, said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . . -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Here we are, condemned to death, and still the certainty of dying cannot compare with the pleasure I am feeling. The joy I take from this half an orange which I am holding in my hand is one of the greatest joys I have ever known. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action. And seeing the eldest of them lost in a reverie that pained us, we added that perhaps the only truth is the peace to be found in books ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A goal without a pan is just a wish. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's against etiquette to yawn in the presence of a King, - the monarch told him. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would not care less about figures. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him ... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!' And a little later you added, 'You know, when you're feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful ... '
'On the day of the forty-four times, were you feeling very sad?'
But the little prince didn't answer. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"
And a little later you added:
"You know
one loves the sunset, when one is so sad ... "
"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"
But the little prince made no reply. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We understand ... that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Watch out for the Baobabs! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Has the sheep eaten the flower or not? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No one is ever satisfied where he is ... Only the children know what they're looking for ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No one is ever satisfied where he is. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see ... '
I answered, 'Yes, of course. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision of a road that is long prepared. Gradually I learned grammar. I practiced syntax. My feelings were awakened. Then a poem suddenly blazed in my heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I admire you", said the little prince, with a little shrug of his shoulders, "but what is there about my admiration that interests you so much? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable ones. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Make of your life a dream, and of a dream a reality. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And walking on like that, I found the well at daybreak. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
How do we tell the difference between an image and an act of will? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I may dispute, in favour of my chosen road, the road that someone else has taken. I may criticize the workings of his logic ... But I must respect the man, if he toils towards the same star. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
All the stars are a riot of flowers. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The essential is invisible to the eyes. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am a man raking through ashes, a man struggling to find the embers of life in the bottom of a fireplace. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A congeries of motives prevents us from blowing up our spinning mills and reviving the distaff. Gandhi had a try at this sort of revolution: he was as simple-minded as a child trying to empty the sea on to the sand with the aid of a tea-cup. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Children," I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What the little prince would not admit to himself was that he was sorry to leave this planet, blessed as it was with one thousand and four hundred and forty sunsets every day. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes...
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You're beautiful, but you're empty. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You know ... when you are sad you love the sunsets. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For my part,' said the little prince to himself, 'if I had fifty-three minutes to spare, I would take my time walking slowly towards the nearest fountain of water. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Not a single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am a fox", the fox said. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
How is it possible for one to own the stars?"
"To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly.
"I don't know. To nobody. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The presence of a friend who is far away can sometimes feel denser than his physical presence in a room. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
...misunderstood and forgotten, you have great truths within you if only anyone would bother to look. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can be added -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remember even the misery with tenderness. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently they're very beautiful. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He never answered questions
but when one flushes does that not mean "Yes"? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Man is, above all, he who creates. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Ephemeral It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Yes, yes, of course I love you,' the flower said to him at last. 'You have no idea - which is my fault. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Once it was believed that to bring these creatures to manhood it was enough to feed them, clothe them, and look to their everyday needs; but we see now that the result of this has been to turn out petty shopkeepers, village politicians, hollow technicians devoid of an inner life. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You are beautiful, but you are empty -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A goal without a plan is just a wish. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Thus is the earth at once a desert and a paradise, rich in secret hidden gardens, gardens inaccessible, but to which the craft leads us ever back, one day or another. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Grown ups are certainly very strange. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I was sad, but I told them: "I am tired. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's much more difficult to make a judgment on yourself than on anyone else. If you can manage to judge yourself well, you're a truly wise person. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend . -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is the time that you wasted for your rose that makes her so important. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who never says "no" is no true man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One must look with the heart. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's worth it, it's worth the final smash-up. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To vain men, other people are admirers. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Only the Spirit, if it breathe upon the clay, can create Man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?"
"I solve them all" said the snake -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Where I live, everything is very small. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who would travel happy must travel lite. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Why should anyone be frightened by a hat? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You know ... my flower ... I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
How difficult it is to advance at one's own internal rhythm when one is constantly fighting against the inertia of the material world. Everything is always on the verge of stopping. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's useful because it's beautiful. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Tomorrow's truth grows out of yesterday's error. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am grateful to you for taking me as you find me. What do I want with a friend who judges me? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night ... You, only you, will have stars that can laugh at night ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Flowers are so inconsistent! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little
bells that knew how to laugh ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Childhood is another country but also a waiting-room, a state of accommodation and acceptance. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. "It's a little lonely in the desert ... " "It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
a sheep eats whatever it finds
even a flower with thorn?
even a flower with thorns.
then what's the good of thorns? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's a question of discipline ... When you finish washing and dressing each morning, you must carefully wash and dress your planet. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's so mysterious, the land of tears. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Whether it's a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful is invisible. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups really are decidedly odd", -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
4 I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! But -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Truths may clash without contradicting each other. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True pleasure is the pleasure of sharing. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation
again. "It is a little lonely in the desert ... "
"It is also lonely among men," the snake said. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Good taste is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You only understand the things that you tame, -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He did not know how the world is simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. But you are of no use to the stars ... -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One must command from each what each can preform. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The only things you learn are the things you tame -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The house, the stars, the desert
what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Straight ahead you can't go very far. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For I do not want my book to be read carelessly. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
My flower is ephemeral, thought little prince. And she only has four thorns for protection! And I've left her all alone! That -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Stars will be looking up to you -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We are living through deeply anxious days and if we are to relieve our own anxiety we must diagnose its cause -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
On ne sait jamais!
One never knows! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are favorable. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times ... You know ... when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
We must only demand that which each individual can give," said the king. "The authority rests first on reason. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The real miracles make no noise. The crucial events in a life are unobtrusive. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Children understand. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Anyone I touch, I send back to the land from which he came. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I shall never again admire a merely brave man. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who must travel happily must travel light. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life ... but what is that something? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The one thing I love in life is to sleep. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
And were you very, very sad on the day you watched fourty-four sunsets? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Already Buenos Aires was dyeing the horizon with pink fires, soon to flaunt its diadem of jewels, like some fairy hoard. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'? -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You only see clearly with your heart. The most important things are invisible to the eyes. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The one thing that matters is the effort. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is a question of discipline," the little prince said to me later on. "When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I will make you a present of a secret. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You're not a man, you're a mushroom! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
What have you come to Earth for?'
'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said.
'Ah!' said the snake.
And they were both silent. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To live is to be slowly born. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Authority is first and foremost based on reason. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. The -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You talk just like the grown-ups!
That made me a little ashamed. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I am who I am and I have the need to be. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I saw the sunset forty-four times! -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The essential is invisible to eyes -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He spoke again: The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
a last glimmer of intelligence (p. 79) -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
All grown-ups were once children ... but only few of them remember it. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
