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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.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You are beautiful, but you are empty
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who would travel happy must travel lite.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
He who must travel happily must travel light.
— 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
And were you very, very sad on the day you watched fourty-four 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
To live is to be slowly born.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
— 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
No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.
— 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
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Make of your life a dream, and of a dream a reality.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True pleasure is the pleasure of sharing.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One must observe the proper rites.
— 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
My footfall rang in a universe that was not theirs.
— 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
Children understand.
— 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
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
But who will bang on their doors demanding entry?
— 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
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
— 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
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
There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
— 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
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
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
Man is, above all, he who creates.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable ones.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
— 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
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The only things you learn are the things you tame
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
— 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
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
— 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
It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of littlebells that knew how to laugh ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
On ne sait jamais! One never knows! — 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
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
— 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
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's useful because it's beautiful.
— 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
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
— 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
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.
— Consuelo 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
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
— 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
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
— 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
I still fall for your everyday.
— 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
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
— 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 someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One feels rather lonely in the dessert.''It is just as lonely among men. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.
— 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
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
It's good to have a friend. Even if you're going to die.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations
— 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
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
— 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
It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
— 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
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
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
It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
You just talk like grown-ups!
— 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
Childhood is another country but also a waiting-room, a state of accommodation and acceptance.
— 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
In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
— 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
The essential is invisible to eyes
— 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
To live is to be born slowly. it would be a little too easy to borrow ready-made souls!
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It's much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery