Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.

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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

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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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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.

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No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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