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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quotes

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“If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Only the children know what they are looking for . . . They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“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.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Conceited people never hear anything but praise.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“No one is ever satisfied where he is” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“But 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 .” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“What makes the desert beautiful . . . is that somewhere it hides a well...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“All grown-ups were once children—although few of them remember it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The house, the stars, the desert—what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The one thing I love in life is to sleep.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Flowers are weak creatures. They are naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons .” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“He did not know how the world is simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects.”
“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 . . . ” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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