8 Quotes by Antione de Saint-Exupery

One never knows.

What is essential is invisible to the eye...' - The Little Prince

In the first place, I was standing still. Having banked right in order to correct a sudden drift, I saw the landscape freeze abruptly where it was and remain jiggling on the same spot. I was making no headway. My wings had ceased to nibble into the outline of the earth. I could see the earth buckle, pivot - but it stayed put. The plane was skidding as if on a toothless cogwheel.

There I was, throttle wide open, facing the coast. At right angles to the coast and facing it. A lot had happened in a single minute. In the first place, I had not flown out to sea. I had been spat out to sea by a monstrous cough, vomited out of my valley as from the mouth of a howitzer.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye

Faites que le rêve dévore vortre vie afin que la vie ne dévore pas votre rêve

Les toutes grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants.

When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours.