Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.Collection: Arrogant
Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.Collection: Generations
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.Collection: Happiness
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.Collection: Men
You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.Collection: Long
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.Collection: Men
Only the children know what they are looking for.Collection: Children
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.Collection: Stars
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.Collection: Judging
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.Collection: Purpose
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.Collection: Running