Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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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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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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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.
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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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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
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To live is to be slowly born.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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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 was too young to know how to love her.
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
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Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
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My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?