Antoine de Saint-Exupery One Day Quotations

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "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.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...