Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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No one is ever satisfied where he is.
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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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You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
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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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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
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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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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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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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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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If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
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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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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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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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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.