It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Le Petit Prince (1943) (The Little Prince)
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More from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
Terre des Hommes (1939) (Wind, Sand and Stars)
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
Vol de Nuit (1931) (Night Flight)
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Though attributed to Saint-Exupéry in several business self-help books, no example written by Saint-Exupéry has been found. See wikiquote for more discussion on the matter.
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Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these were the seeds of the baobab. The soil of that planet was infested with them. A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. It bores clear through it with its roots. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces…
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Terre des Hommes (1939)
