Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
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If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
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You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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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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No one is ever satisfied where he is.
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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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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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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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Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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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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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.