Antoine De Saint-exupéry, The Little Prince

Quotes

• “People where you live,"the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they'...”
• “She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all ...”
• “People have forgotten this truth,"the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’...”
• “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential i...”
• “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 flowe...”
• “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedra...”
• “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...”
• “You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”
• “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
• “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
• “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
• “I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”
• “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
• “Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.”
• “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
• “The only things you learn are the things you tame”
• “When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
• “No one is ever satisfied where he is.”