Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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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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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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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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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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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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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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But 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.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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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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"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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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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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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I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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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.