Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
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And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
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All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them.
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
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Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.
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He who never says "no" is no true man.
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world.