Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To conceited men, all other men are admirers.
- Where are the people? It's a little lonely in the desert...
- It is lonely when you're among people, too...
I should never have listened to her. One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.
You're beautiful, but you're empty... No one could die for you.
Only children know what they are looking for.
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He had never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures.
What the Little Prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to leave this planet, because it was blest every day with 1440 sunsets!
All humanity could be piled up on a small Pacific islet. The grown-ups, to be sure, will not believe you when you tell them that. They imagine that they fill a great deal of space. They fancy themselves as important as the baobabs. You should advise them, then, to make their own calculations. They adore figures, and that will please them.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...
It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
When you've finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.
When he lights his street lamp, it is as if he brought one more star to life, or one flower. When he puts out his lamp, he sends the flower, or the star, to sleep. That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful.
Draw me a sheep!
One never knows!
What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.
- 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.
The flower had once seen a caravan passing.
- Men? I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their lives very difficult.
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