diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 6239b5f3..f7656029 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
     "illuminate/support": "^5.5|^6",
     "illuminate/translation": "^5.5|^6",
     "symfony/finder": "^3|^4",
-    "tanmuhittin/laravel-google-translate": "^1.0.2"
+    "tanmuhittin/laravel-google-translate": "^1.0.2",
+    "brick/varexporter": "^0.2.1"
   },
   "autoload": {
     "psr-4": {
diff --git a/src/Manager.php b/src/Manager.php
index 7e478f5e..abad389d 100644
--- a/src/Manager.php
+++ b/src/Manager.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 use Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application;
 use Barryvdh\TranslationManager\Models\Translation;
 use Barryvdh\TranslationManager\Events\TranslationsExportedEvent;
+use Brick\VarExporter\VarExporter;
 
 class Manager
 {
@@ -294,7 +295,7 @@ public function exportTranslations($group = null, $json = false)
 
                         $path = $path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$locale.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$group.'.php';
 
-                        $output = "<?php\n\nreturn ".var_export($translations, true).';'.\PHP_EOL;
+                        $output = "<?php\n\nreturn ".VarExporter::export($translations).';'.\PHP_EOL;
                         $this->files->put($path, $output);
                     }
                 }