Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would not care less about figures.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery