Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes - Page 12

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• If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

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  Leadership, Would Be, Faults

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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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  Love, Beautiful, Country

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

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• There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

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  Organization, Growth, Fulfillment

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

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• The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

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  Lying, Sacrifice, Self

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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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  Stars, Flower, Sheep

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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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  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

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  Men, Causes, Misery

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• No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

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  Truth, Sleep, Men

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• The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

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  Sheep, Want, Littles

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

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  Elephants, Drawing, Hats

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• I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

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  Stars, Heaven, One Day

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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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  Nature, Science, Technology

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

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  Men, Matter

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• I saw the sunset forty-four times!

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  Sunset, Four, Saws

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• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

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  Heart, Eye, People

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• Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

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  Change, Men, Two

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• And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

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  Laughter, Taken, Lovely

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.22, eKitap Projesi

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• I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

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  Believe, Flower, Weapons

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• Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

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  Perfection, Simplicity, Add

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

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  Night, Airports, Light

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• The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

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  Fighting, Advice, Mind

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

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• The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

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  Night, Blue, Dragons

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter I: "The Craft", 1939.

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• I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

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  Flower, Grace, One Day

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.42, eKitap Projesi

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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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  Distance, Two, Feet

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• My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

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  Elephants, Drawing, Hats

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.14, eKitap Projesi

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