Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People haven’t time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

She knew this man’s smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Straight ahead you can’t go very far.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery