Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
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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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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
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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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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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The only things you learn are the things you tame.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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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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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
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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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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.