Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Biography
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"Goodbye,"said the fox. "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."
"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."
"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..."
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"People have forgotten this truth,"the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose."
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"
"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
"People where you live,"the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it,"I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course,"I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."
"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."
"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."
"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."
"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
"Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction."
"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime."
"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
"When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?"
"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
"No one is ever satisfied where he is."
"I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..."