Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am a fox’, the fox said.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

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