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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.