Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.
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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.
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Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-