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 sp… - 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.

But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life.

Si tu viens, par exemple, à quatre heures de l'après-midi, dès trois heures je commencerai d'être heureux.

The house, the stars, the desert — what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!