Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
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You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
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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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Man is, above all, he who creates.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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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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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
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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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You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.
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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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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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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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I was too young to know how to love her.