Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

What is going on inside me I cannot tell. In the sky a thousand stars are magnetized, and I lie glued by the swing of the planet to the sand. A different weight brings me back to myself. I feel the weight of my body drawing me towards so many things. My dreams are more real than these dunes, than that moon, than these presences. My civilization is an empire more imperious than this empire. The marvel of a house is not that it shelters or warms a man, nor that its walls belong to him. It is that it leaves its trace on the language. Let it remain a sign. Let it form, deep in the heart, that obscure range from which, as waters from a spring, are born our dreams.

Por aquella época había hecho una gran demostración de su descubrimiento en un Congreso Internacional de Astronomía. Pero debido a su indumentaria, nadie le había hecho caso. Los mayores son así.
Afortunadamente, para la reputación del asteroide B 612 un dictador turco impuso a su pueblo, bajo la pena de muerte, la obligación de vestirse a la europea. El astrónomo volvió a hacer su demostración, en 1920, con un traje muy elegante. Y esta vez sí, todos fueron de su parecer

Küçük Prens çölü geçerken bir çiçeğe rastladı yalnız.Üç taçyapraklı önemsiz bir çiçekti bu.

-Günaydın, dedi Küçük Prens.
-Günaydın, dedi çiçek.
-İnsanlar nerede? diye kibarca sordu Küçük Prens.

Çiçek eskiden bir kervan görmüştü.

-İnsanlar mı? diye tekrarladı.Galiba altı yedi tane insan var.Yıllar önce görmüştüm.Ama kim bilir şimdi neredeler?Rüzgarla sürüklenmişlerdir.Kökleri yok, hayatları güç oluyor bu yüzden.

-Hoşçakal, dedi Küçük Prens.
-Hoşçakal, dedi çiçek.

Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable. And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert.

The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision of a road that is long prepared. Gradually I learned grammar. I practiced syntax. My feelings were awakened. Then a poem suddenly blazed in my heart.

personas ya no tienen tiempo de conocer nada. Lo compran todo hecho en las tiendas. Y como no hay tiendas donde vendan amigos, no tienen ya amigos. ¡Si quieres un amigo, domestícame!

كنت أود الإتصال. أعرف أني لا أجيد الحديث في الهاتف, وأني كمت سأقول (آلو..آلو..) لكي أتمالك نفسي. من المحزن أن يكون المرء اخرساً

¡No supe comprender nada entonces! Debí juzgarla por sus actos y no por sus palabras. ¡La flor perfumaba e iluminaba mi vida y jamás debí huir de allí!¡No supe adivinar la ternura que ocultaban sus pobres astucias!¡Son tan contradictorias las flores! Pero yo era demasiado joven para amarla.

Because you wasted so much time on me, you made me feel very important.

-The Fox

Son realmente hermosas pero vacías rosas -añadió el principito- Uno se siente impulsado a dejarse morir por ustedes

The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there, 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them), 7000 geographers, 900,000 businessmen, 7,500,000 tipplers, 311,000,000 conceited men — that is to say, about 2,000,000,000 grown-ups.

Quando nos deixamos cativar, é certo e sabido que algum dia alguma coisa nos há de fazer chorar.

Es triste olvidar a un amigo y volverse como los adultos que se interesan por los números

Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes...And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.