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61 " What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible... "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , The Little Prince
62 " It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. "
63 " I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat... "
64 " This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present. "
65 " One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed... "
66 " Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people. "
67 " When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
68 " It is such a secret place, the land of tears. "
69 " When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care. "
70 " He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making. It is to be proud of a victory won by our comrades. It is to feel, as we place our stone, that we are contributing to the building of the world. "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wind, Sand and Stars
71 " A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. "
72 " No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Night Flight
73 " If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! "
74 " He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation. "
75 " The villages were lighting up, constellations that greeted each other across the dusk. And, at the touch of his finger, his flying-lights flashed back a greeting to them. The earth grew spangled with light signals as each house lit its star, searching the vastness of the night as a lighthouse sweeps the sea. Now every place that sheltered human life was sparkling. And it rejoiced him to enter into this one night with a measured slowness, as into an anchorage. "
76 " And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you... "
77 " I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. "
78 " I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more. "
79 " When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. "
80 " I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old. "