Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
الراشدون يحبون الأرقام. وحين تحدثهم عن صديق جديد، فهم لا يسألونك قطّ عن الأمور الجوهريّة. لا يقولون لك أبداً كيف هي رنّة صوته؟ ما هي ألعابه المفضّلة؟ هل يجمع الفراشات؟ بل يسألونك: كم عمره؟ كم عدد إخوت...
آنذاك لم أستطع أن أفهم شيئا، فقد كان عليّ أن أحكم عليها من خلال الأفعال لا الأقوال. إنها عطّرتني وأضاءتني. لم يكن عليّ أن أهرب! كان عليّ أن أتنبأ بحنانها المختبيء خلف حِيَلها الساذجة. إن الزهور متناقض...
You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture your features. You are Humanity and your face comes into my mind simply as...
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone sh...
The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to...
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...
If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had...
For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. For you I'm only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxe...
C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli.It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who...
Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
Y cuando te hayas consolado (uno siempre termina por consolarse) te alegrarás de haberme conocido
What must I do, to tame you? asked the little prince.You must be very patient, replied the fox. First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out o...
What moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is his loyalty to a flower — the image of a rose that shines through his whole being like the flame of a lamp, even when he is a...
What are you trying to say?All men have the stars, he answered, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more th...
The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her.....
Please-tame me!' he said.'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.''One only understands the thin...