Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

  

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• My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

  

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• When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

  

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• Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

  

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• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

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• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

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• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

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• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

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• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

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• I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.

  

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• I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Loved
  • Desert
  • Gleams