Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

To live is to be slowly born.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.