Être homme, c'est précisément être responsable. C'est connaître la honte en face d'une misère qui ne semblait pas dépendre de soi. C'est être fier d'une victoire que les camarades ont remportée. C'est sentir, en posant sa pierre, que l'on contribue à bâtir le monde.
- 1939 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversation
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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...
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
La vérité pour l'homme, c'est ce qui fait de lui un homme.
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -1939
Je ne puis rien acheter avec de l'argent qui vaille plus cher que le plaisir d'avoir dit ce que je voulais dire.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry