16 famous quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of “The Little Prince”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 – 1944) is known throughout the world for his most famous book, The little Prince (1943). The deeply narrated story has reached the hearts of children to adults and from experts to beginners in the world of words.

Anyone who was moved by the story of the Little Prince who travels around planets in love with his Rose should know a little more about the French writer.

Born in Lyon, Saint-Exupéry grew up in an aristocratic milieu that allowed him to nurture his immense curiosity for literature and philosophy. He divided his life between his two great loves: literature and aviation. O awesome.club introduces you to 16 famous phrases from the important author.

1. Loving is not looking at each other, it’s looking together in the same direction.

2. What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

3. I do not pass in your eyes as a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you captivate me, we will need each other. You will be unique to me in the world. And I will be the only one for you in the world.

4. The first love is liked more, the others are liked better.

5. You can only see well with the heart, the essential is invisible to the eyes.

6. I will have to bear two or three caterpillars if I want to meet butterflies.

7. Failure strengthens the strong.

8. Make your life a dream and your dream a reality.

9. If we want a world of peace and justice, we must resolutely put intelligence at the service of love.

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10. True love begins when nothing is expected in return.

11. Love is the only thing that grows as it is shared.

12. If you want to understand the word happiness, you have to understand it as a reward and not as an end.

13. Having a friend is not something everyone can assume.

14. All older people were originally children.

15. When you keep moving forward, you can’t go very far.

16. If you come, for example, at four o’clock in the afternoon, from three o’clock I will begin to be happy. The more the time comes, the more I will feel happy. At four o’clock, then, I will be restless and agitated: I will discover the price of happiness! But if you come at any moment, I will never know when to prepare my heart.