All Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
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Love
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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 joys.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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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 civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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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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Imagination
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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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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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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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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
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You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
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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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