You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.
The little prince went away, to look again at the roses.You are not at all like my rose, he said. As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I fi...
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...
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.
Only the children know what they are looking for.
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.
Les étoiles sont belles, à cause d'une fleur que l'on ne voit pas...
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.
Les enfants seuls savent ce qu’ils cherchent
Les contes de fées c'est comme ça. Un matin on se réveille. On dit: Ce n'était qu'un conte de fées... On sourit de soi. Mais au fond on ne sourit guère. On sait bien que les contes de fées c'est la se...
I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does not stir me to enthusiasm. It is not danger I love. I know what I love. It is life.
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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...
Good morning, said the little prince.Good morning, said the merchant.This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would fe...
Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: ‘What does his voice sound like?’ ‘What games does he like best?’ ‘Do...
Droit devant soi on ne peut pas aller bien loin...
Children understand.
Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
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