Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
You're beautiful, but you're empty... No one could die for you.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
- Where are the people? It's a little lonely in the desert...
- It is lonely when you're among people, too...
It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
- One must command from each what each can perform. Authority is based first of all upon reason. If you command your subjects to jump into the ocean, there will be a revolution. I am entitled to command obedience because my orders are reasonable.
- Then my sunset?
- You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are favorable.
One never knows!
Then you shall judge yourself, that is the most difficult thing of all. 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.
I should never have listened to her. One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...
When you've finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.
If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.
Draw me a sheep!
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well.
To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. 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...
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
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