Quotes by writer

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!"

"It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes"

"Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses."

"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

"If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself."

""Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.""

"It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself."

"You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away."