“What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.”
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...
Le Petit Prince (1943)
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Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part…
Le Petit Prince (1943)
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 38
French writer and aviator 1900–1944Related quotes
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Source: 1970s, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
Context: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"
"Death with Dignity"
Lyrics, Carrie and Lowell (2015)
“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere”
Source: The New Life
“If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.”
Source: The Eternity Code
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
"The Fear of Dying".
City Poems (1857)
Los Angelenos.
Song lyrics, Streetlife Serenade (1974)
as quoted in Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Drawings, Helaine Posner, exhibition catalogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1992
1965 - 1995
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!”
Isle of Beauty, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I find that absence still increases love", Charles Hopkins, To C. C.; "Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it", Howell, Familiar Letters, book i. sect. i. No. 6.