Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for.
Le langage est source de malentendus.
I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked abo...
You are beautiful, but you are empty, he went on. One could not die for you.
Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un.(If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
To forget a friend is sad.
One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times!And a little later you added:You know-- one loves the sunet, when one is so sad...Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-fou...
Nothing's perfect, sighed the fox. My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life wil...
Grown ups are certainly very strange.
But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.
It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.
She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth...
It is not by way of language that I shall transmit what is within me; for it is inexpressible in words. I can but signify this insofar as you may understand it through other channels than the spoken w...
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.