Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.- In order to forget - replied the drunkard.- To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.- To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.- Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him.- Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.And the little prince went away, puzzled.'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
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To be a man is precisely to be responsible.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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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 moulded.
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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 free to be another.
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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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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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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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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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 free to be another.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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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Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.
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Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
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There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
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Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply.
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A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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Flowers are so inconsistent!
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The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. 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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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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Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.
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The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.
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Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while" (the flower to little prince)
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Everyone seems inspired by some religion that promises fulfillment. Within the clashing words we are all expressing the same impulses. We are divided over methods which are the fruit of our reasoning, but not over our goals, which are identical.
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This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little prince appeared on Earth, and disappeared.Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognise it in case you travel some day to the African desert. And, if you should come upon this spot, please do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.
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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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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. By thy might, there return into us treasures that we had abandoned. By thy grace, there are released in us all the dried-up runnels of our heart. Of the riches that exist in the world, thou art the rarest and also the most delicate - thou so pure within the bowels of the earth! A man may die of thirst lying beside a magnesian spring. He may die within reach of a salt lake. He may die though he hold in his hand a jug of dew, if it be inhabited by evil salts. For thou, water, art a proud divinity, allowing no alteration, no foreignness in thy being. And the joy that thou spreadest is an infinitely simple joy.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
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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