Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
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The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.
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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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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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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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I am a fox", the fox said.
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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 will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.