Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
I am who I am and I have the need to be.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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.
A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
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