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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer

Lived from: 1900 - 1944

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 29 june 1900 Died: 31 july 1944

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  • How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows 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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  • I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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  • I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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  • If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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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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  • It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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  • It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
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  • Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
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  • Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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  • Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
    Original: L'amour ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la même direction.
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  • More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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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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  • Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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  • One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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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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  • Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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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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  • The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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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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