Grown ups are certainly very strange.
("The Little Prince")
More Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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