Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
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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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My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
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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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The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
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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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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
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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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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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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
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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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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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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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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
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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?