Children, I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs!"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Author
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Year
- 1943
- Genres
- lyrical novel, philosophical fiction, tale
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Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more. It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The proof that the little prince existed is that he laughed, and tha the was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You know - one loves the sunset, when one is so sad... "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery