Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes - Page 5

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• Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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  Life, Purpose, Ifs

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• You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

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  Inspiring, Peace, Ubuntu

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• All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

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  Stars, Men, Light

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• Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

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  Priceless, Life Is, Human Life

  Night Flight ch. 14 (1931)

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• In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

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  Running, Flower, Silly

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• We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

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  Generations, Passwords, Transmit

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• If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

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  Sleep, Loss, Suffering

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• How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

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  Rivers, Water, Unity

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• Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

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  Opposites, Suffering, Doe

  "'Citadelle' ('The Wisdom of the Sands')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1948.

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• That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Judging Yourself

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• He who would travel happy must travel lite.

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• For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

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  Relationship, Joy, Problem

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• You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

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  Thinking, Fog, Snow

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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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  Mean, Ties, Doe

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• Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

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  Life, Education, Learning

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

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• We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

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  Loses, Eternal, Asks

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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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  Men, No Friends, Want

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

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• A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

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  Memories, Men, Getting Older

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

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

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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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  Hands, Opinion, Deals

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.15, eKitap Projesi

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• The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

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  Stars, Giving, House

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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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  Nature, Travel, Earth

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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• You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

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  Risk, Tears, Ifs

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• A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

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  Smile, Keys, Quality

  1943 Lettre a' un otage.

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• I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

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  Children, Age, Pity

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

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