Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
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It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.
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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
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If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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Man is, above all, he who creates.
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.