Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
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I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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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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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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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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If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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I am who I am and I have the need to be.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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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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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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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-