Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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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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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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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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I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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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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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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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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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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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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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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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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You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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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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You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.
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My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.