Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
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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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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
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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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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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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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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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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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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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One only really sees with the heart.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.
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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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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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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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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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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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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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To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
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Language is the source of misunderstandings.