Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old.

The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

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.