On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played!...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chi...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Respect for humanity! Respect for humanity! If such respect is rooted in the human heart, humanity w...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Si os he referido estos detalles acerca del asteroide B 612 y si os he confiado su número es por la...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach h...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Good morning," said the little prince.

Good morning," said the merchant.

This ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment whe...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces,...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Moi qui éprouve, comme chacun, le besoin d’être reconnu, je me sens pur en toi et vais à toi. J...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Mais voici qu’aujourd’hui nous avons éprouvé la soif. Et ce puits que nous connaissons, nous d...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Il faut longtemps cultiver un ami avant qu'il réclame son dû d'amitié. Il faut s'être ruiné dur...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Au-dessus de mes mots maladroits, au-dessus des raisonnements qui me peuvent tromper, tu considères...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Que l'on soit absent dans la pièce voisine, ou sur l'autre versant de la planète, la différence n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The only things you learn are the things you tame
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with o...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lo...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
So I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters with lots of serious people. I have spen...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Then, as tonight, he had felt lonely, but soon had learnt the bounty of such loneliness. The music h...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not th...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, and I asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered:"wh...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain thing...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Ye...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garcons. Et je n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What set...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Truth is the language that expresses universality. Newton did not “discover” a law that lay hidd...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of d...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
الحب ليس هو أن نتبادل النظرات وانما أن ننظر معا في اتجا�...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
لعل عظمة مهنة من المهن هي، قبل كل شيء، في التوحيد بين ال...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags w...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulf...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Bit by bit, nevertheless, it comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can r...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
لا شيء، أبدا، في الواقع، يحل محل الرفيق المفقود. لا نست�...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
و تدلنا التجربة أن الحب ليس أن ينظر بعضنا إلى بعض ، وإنم...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizon...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, ‘Wha...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall ne...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man find...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer harden...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel th...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be u...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The machine which at first blush seems a means of isolating man from the great problems of nature, a...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
- Adiós -dijo el zorro-. He aquí mi secreto, que no puede ser más simple: sólo con el corazón s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Ik zal naar je kijken vanuit mijn ooghoek. En jij zal niets zeggen. Woorden zijn de bron van misvers...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
il n'est ni sagesse, ni calcul, ni science de l'eau quand elle dissout les digues et engloutit les v...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Mais, ce n'est pas un homme, c'est un champignon!
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
I am who I am and I have the need to be.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Một chiến thắng làm suy yếu một dân tộc này, một chiến bại làm thức tỉnh m...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction
ANTOINE DE SAINT
Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is ...
—ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY, THE LITTLE PRINCE
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential a...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
He who would travel happily must travel light
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it i...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into wh...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, si...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, si...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY