Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
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What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
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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.
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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.
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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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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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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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?
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
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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.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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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.
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If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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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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Where I live, everything is very small.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.