Antoine De Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Antoine De Saint-Exupery Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times ... You know ... when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
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.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again
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 .
Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.
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.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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.
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
By absorbing myself in the passion of party politics, I risk forgetting that politics are meaningless unless they serve a spiritual truth.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
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.
Yes, yes, of course I love you,' the flower said to him at last. 'You have no idea - which is my fault.
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 ...
bells that knew how to laugh ...
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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?
It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.
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 ...
When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond
myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.
myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.
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 ...
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.
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.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.