Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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I still fall for your everyday.
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You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.
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The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
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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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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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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 a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
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You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
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Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.