Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
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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.”
-- Antoine de Saint-ExuperySource : Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)
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“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
-- Antoine de Saint-ExuperySource : Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)
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“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”
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“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.”
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“"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."”
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“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
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“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
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“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
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“My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!”
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“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
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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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“But 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.”
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“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
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“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
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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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“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
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“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
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“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
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“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
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“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
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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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“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
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“When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.”
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“In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.”
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“It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.”
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“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
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“But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
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“Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.”
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