Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
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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 will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. [Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]
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No one is ever satisfied where he is.
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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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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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Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.
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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
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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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To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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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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You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
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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.
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Where I live, everything is very small.