Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and 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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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
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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 faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.
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Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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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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If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
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It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
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To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
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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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Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
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I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.