Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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I am a fox", the fox said.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.
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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
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We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.