Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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I am a fox", the fox said.
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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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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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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 only things you learn are the things you tame.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
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It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.
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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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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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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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I am who I am and I have the need to be.
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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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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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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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You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.