This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress … - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is, If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.

Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognise it in case you travel
some day to the African desert. And, if you should come upon this spot, please
do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man
appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions,
you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me
word that he has come back.

Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.

perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets oneself be tamed...