Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude’s desire.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What does tamed mean? It’s something that’s been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery