Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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I am a fox", the fox said.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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Man is, above all, he who creates.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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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-
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
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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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If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
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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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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.