My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
He who must travel happily must travel light.
How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
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.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
One must observe the proper rites.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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