Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.
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I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.
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A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
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Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.
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Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
