Cuando por las noches mires al cielo, al pensar que en una de aquellas estrellas estoy yo riendo, será para ti como si todas las estrellas riesen. ¡Tú tendrás estrellas que saben reír!

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

The villages were lighting up, constellations that greeted each other across the dusk. And, at the touch of his finger, his flying-lights flashed back a greeting to them. The earth grew spangled with light signals...

He who must travel happily must travel light.

A perfeição não é alcançada quando não há mais nada a ser incluído, mas sim quando não há mais nada a ser retirado.” – Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to be...

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

First you will sit down at a little distance from me, like that, in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are...

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

au seigneur véritable non plus, le palais, dans son opulence, ne lui sert de rien dans l’instant. Il n’occupe qu’une salle à la fois.(chapitre CLXXXIV)

Je suis la source de toute vie. Je suis la marée qui entre en vous et vous aime et se retire. Je suis l’amour qui entre en vous et dure pour l’éternité.

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.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To...

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Que l’on soit absent dans la pièce voisine, ou sur l’autre versant de la planète, la différence n’est pas essentielle. La présence de l’ami qui en apparence s’est éloigné, peut se faire plus dense qu’une...

Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nôtre ? Une tyrannie totalitaire pourrait nous satisfaire, elle aussi, dans nos besoins matériels. Mais nous ne sommes pas...

Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn’t...

It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Goodbye,” said the fox. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Perfektion ist erreicht, wenn man nichts mehr wegnehmen kann.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

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.

If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Nu primejdia e ceea ce iubesc. Stiu eu prea bine ce iubesc. Eu iubesc viata.

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 flowers…

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your...

He who would travel happily must travel light

That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells,and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water…

Nothing is perfect,” sighed the fox. “My life is very monotonous. I run after the chickens; the men run after me. All the chickens are the same; all the men are the same. Consequently, I...

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man.

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.

He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of...

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed...

je dis civilisé le peuple qui compose ses danses, malgré qu’il ne soit pour les danses ni récolte ni greniers. Alors que je dis brut le peuple qui aligne sur ses étagères des objets, fussent-ils...

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains...

It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night.

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

Nu cunoaștem dec t ceea ce îmbl nzim, zise vulpea. Oamenii nu mai au timp să cunoască nimic. Cumpără lucruri de-a gata, de la neguțători. Cum însă nu există neguțători de prieteni, oamenii nu mai...

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

I am looking for friends. What does that mean — tame?””It is an act too often neglected,” said the fox. “It means to establish ties.” “To establish ties?” “Just that,” said the fox. “To me,...

People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden…yet they don’t find what they are looking for.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.