Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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.
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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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I am who I am and I have the need to be.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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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.
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Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
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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.
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GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.
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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.
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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To live is to be slowly born.
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-
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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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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.
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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.