I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

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

The only things you learn are the things you tame

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.