Antoine de Saint-Exupery French Novelist Quotations

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.