Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes - Page 10

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• The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

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  Travel, Airplane, Science

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• An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

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  Doe, Machines, Administration

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

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  Men, Select, Mankind

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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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  Gratitude, Charity, Made

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• Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

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  Flower, Sheep, Sky

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• We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

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  Emptiness, Existentialism, Praying

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• Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

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  Men

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• The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.

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  Gratitude, Attitude, Lying

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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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  Fashion, Men, Together

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• Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

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  World, Found, Framework

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

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  Art, Rain, Color

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• The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

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  Soldier, Accessories, Body

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• And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.

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  Children, Yawning, Important

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• It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

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  War, Making Love, Soldier

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• Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

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  Soul, Would Be, Littles

  "Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1942.

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• People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

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  Stars, Light, People

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• Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

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  Block, Past, Men

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• I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for 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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  Life, Creativity, Adventure

  "Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.

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• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

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  Home, Machines, Barbarians

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• What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

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  Love, Anger, Hatred

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• To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

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  May, Forget, Figures

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• If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

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  War, Sometimes, Businessman

  "Letter to an American". Essay by Antoine de Saint Exupery, www.416th.com. July 1944.

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• But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

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  Heart, Hours, Ready

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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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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  Eye, Looks, Foxes

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• The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

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  Hair, Hands, Wind

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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