Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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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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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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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 am who I am and I have the need to be.
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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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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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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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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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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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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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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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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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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 soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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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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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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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?