小王子
猴面包树在长大之前也是小树苗啊。
每天早晨洗漱好以后，你必须仔细地清洁和打扮你的星球。你必须强迫自己经常去拔掉猴面包树，它小时候跟玫瑰的幼苗长得很像，你要是能把它认出来，马上就得拔掉。这是非常乏味的劳动，但也非常简单。
如果有人爱上一朵花，天上的星星有亿万颗，而这朵花只长在其中一颗上，这足以让他在仰望夜空时感到很快乐。他会告诉自己：「在星空的某处有我的花。」但如果绵羊把花吃掉了，对他来说就等于所有的星星突然熄灭了！这也根本不重要吧！
小王子总是把她的话当真，但很多话她其实只是随口说说而已，这让小王子很不高兴。
你千万不能把花儿的话当真。我们只要凝望她们的模样，闻闻她们的芳香就好。我的花朵让整个星球弥漫着香味，但我却不懂得为此而高兴。那几句关于虎爪的胡话让我很生气，但她其实是在撒娇，希望我能怜惜她……
可惜从前我什么都不懂！我应该看她的行动，而不是听她的言语！她为我散发芬芳，点亮我的生活。
「你为什么喝酒呢？」小王子问。「为了忘记，」爱喝酒的人回答。「忘记什么呀？」小王子问，他已经开始替这人感到难过。「忘记我的羞愧，」爱喝酒的人低着头说。「羞愧什么呢？」小王子问，他想帮帮这个人。「羞愧喝酒啊！」爱喝酒的人说完这句话就再也不肯开口了。
「拥有星星能给你带来什么好处呢？」「能让我变得富裕。」「变得富裕能给你带来什么好处呢？」「如果有人发现了更多的星星，我就可以买下来。」「这个家伙，」小王子心里想，「他的思考方式有点像那个爱喝酒的人。」
他会被其他几个人嘲笑的，国王、虚荣的人、爱喝酒的人和做生意的人都会嘲笑他。可是在我看来，他是唯一不荒唐的人。也许这是因为他那么忙碌却不是为了他自己。
到了地球之后，小王子感到很意外，因为他看不到任何人。
人？几年前我倒见过六七个。但你不知道哪里能找到他们。是风把他们吹来的。他们没有根，这让他们很苦恼。
所有的道路都通往人类的居住区。
对我来说，你无非是个孩子，和其他成千上万个孩子没有什么区别。我不需要你。你也不需要我。对你来说，我无非是只狐狸，和其他成千上万只狐狸没有什么不同。但如果你驯化了我，那我们就会彼此需要。你对我来说是独一无二的，我对你来说也是独一无二的……
「你只能了解你驯化的东西，」狐狸说，「人类再也没有时间去了解什么东西了。他们无论需要什么都到商店里买现成的。但商店里不卖朋友，所以人类再也交不到朋友。如果你想找个朋友，请驯化我！」
「你每天最好在相同的时间来，」狐狸说，「比如说你定在下午四点来，那么到了三点我就会开始很高兴。时间越是接近，我就越高兴。等到四点，我会很焦躁，坐立不安；我已经发现了幸福的代价。但如果你每天在不同的时间来，我就不知道该在什么时候开始期待你的到来…… 我们需要仪式。」「仪式是什么？」小王子说。「这也是经常被遗忘的事情，」狐狸说，「它使得某个日子区别于其他日子，某个时刻不同于其他时刻。例如，那些猎人就有个仪式。每逢星期四，他们会和村里的女孩跳舞。所以星期四是个美好的日子！我可以到葡萄园里散步。但如果猎人并不在固定的日子跳舞，所有的日子都是相同的，那我就没有假期了。」
看东西只有用心才能看得清楚。重要的东西用眼睛是看不见的。
人总是对自己所处的地方不满意。
灯火需要被好好保护，因为一阵风就能将它吹灭……
他们坐在特快列车里，却不知道他们要追寻什么。所以他们很烦躁，不停地绕圈子……
现在我的悲伤有点平息了。也就是说……还没有彻底平息。我知道他返回了他的星球，因为天亮时我并没有找到他的尸体。其实他的身体不是很重……我喜欢在夜晚聆听星星的笑声。它们就像五亿个小铃铛。
It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
They always need to have things explained.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaing things to them.
I would try to find out, so, if this was person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say: "That is a hat."
He thought, perhaps, that I was like himself. But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes.
Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little.
A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late.
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. But when it is a matter of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe.
One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet.
I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems.
If they are well cleaned out, volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions.
On our earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes. That is why they bring no end of trouble upon us.
For what the king fundamentally insisted upon was that his authority should be respected. He tolerated no disobedience. He was an absolute manorch.
"If I ordered a general," he would say, by way of example, "if I ordered a general to change himeself into a sea bird, and if the general did not obey me, that would not be the fault of the general. It would be my fault."
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
But you are the only man on your planet.
When he lights his street lamp, it is as if he brought one more star to life, or one flower. When he puts out his lamp, he sends the flower, or the star, to sleep.
On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak…
All roads lead to the abodes of men.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
The house, the stars, the desert – what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible.
Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night.
Look up at the sky. Ask yourself: is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes…
This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world.