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Exupery Quotes By Antoine De Saint-Exupery

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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To undermine a person's self-respect is a sin. ~ Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAbbey Strauss

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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would not care less about figures. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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) — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Men set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round. It is not worth the trouble — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Your path lies across the stars. — Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

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What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them ... On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Good morning," said the flower.
"Where are the men?" the little prince asked, politely. The flower had once seen a caravan passing.
"Men?" she echoed. "I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
"Goodbye," said the little prince. "Goodbye," said the flower. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The one thing I love in life is to sleep. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn. To give up on your dreams because one didn't come true. To lose faith in prayers because one was not answered, to give up on our efforts because one of them failed. To condemn all your friends because one betrayed you, not to believe in love because someone was unfaithful or didn't love you back. To throw away all your chances to be happy because you didn't succeed on the first attempt. I hope that as you go on your way, you don't give in nor give up! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Whether it's a house or the stars or the desert, what makes them beautiful is invisible. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Truth is the language that expresses universality. Newton did not "discover" a law that lay hidden from man like the answer to a rebus. He accomplished a creative operation. He founded a human speech which could express at one and the same time the fall of an apple and the rising of the sun. Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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You only see clearly with your heart. The most important things are invisible to the eyes. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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One sees clearly only with the heart, anything that is essential is invisible to the eye.- The Little Prince — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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that's right," the fox said. For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need for you. And you have no need for me,either. For you I'm only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we'll need each other. You'll be the only boy in the world for me. I'll be the only fox in the world for you... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The Little Prince - He was one of the first books I read and I sincerely love — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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They buy things in ready-made stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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You're beautiful, but you're empty ... One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Only the Spirit, if it breathe upon the clay, can create Man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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So, my friend, I need you as I need a high place where I can breathe freely. I need to sit beside you, once more ... celebrating a smile as calm as the day itself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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My footfall rang in a universe that was not theirs. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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We understand ... that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The fox is answering the Little Prince's question. What does that mean ... tame? asks the Little Prince. It
means to establish ties. One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to understand anything, they buy things all ready made at the shops, but there is no shop anywhere one can buy friendship. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Exupery Quotes By Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it. — Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

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Ephemeral It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do not with the evidence but with the witness. The point is not the adventure but the adventurer. Reality cannot be directly rendered. Reality is a pile of bricks that can assume many forms. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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He spoke again: The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Has the sheep eaten the flower or not? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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He did not know how the world is simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I should tolerate the closeness of 2-3 caterpillars, if I want to get to know butterflies — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Each time I stopped I stripped myself of something vitally important. I was, becoming my own enemy! And I can't tell you how it hurt me when I found that out. 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

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A goal without a plan is just a wish. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I know a planet inhabited by a red - faced gentleman. He's never smelled a flower. He's never looked at a star. He's never loved anyone. He's never done anything except add up numbers. And all day long he says over and over, just like you, "I'm a serious man!I'm a serious man!" And that puffs him up with pride. But he's not a man at all- he's a mushroom! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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That's right' said the fox. 'To me, you are still just a little boy like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. To you, I am just a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we shall need one another,. To me, you will be unique. And I shall be unique to you. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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He who must travel happily must travel light. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Straight ahead you can't go very far. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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She chose her colors carefully. She dressed slowly, she adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to present herself all rumpled like the poppies. She would appear in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh, yes! She was very flirtatious! And her mysterious adornment lasted for days and days. Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Those also are actions too often neglected," said the fox. "They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters danced at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him ... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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He never answered questions
but when one flushes does that not mean "Yes"? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range ... which haven't much improved my opinion of them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I loved him, but I also realized how calm my life was without him. — Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

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When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond
myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I saw the sunset forty-four times! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I have a very precise memory of the local train, the hot bricks and copper boxes filled with boiling water to warm us up. Someone in another compartment was playing the guitar. To the rhythm of the train's rocking movement, I heard the chorus "Porque yo to quiero, porque yo to quiero," and I traveled toward my Tonio telling myself, "Because I love you ... because I love you — Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

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So life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel ourselves rich; and then come other years when time does its work and our plantation is made sparse and thin. One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive us of their shade. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed ... Ah! la la! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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His work has some meaning. When he lights his street lamp, it is as if he brought one more star to life, or one flower. When he puts out his lamp, he sends the flower, or the star, to sleep. That is a beautiful occupation. And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body when me. It's too heavy"
I said nothing.
"But it will be like an abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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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. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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But I made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I have a vital need for peace. I seek no personal end, no approval from public opinion. Everything now is a struggle with myself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Authority is first and foremost based on reason. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories, so many bad times endured together, so many quarrels, reconciliations, heartfelt impulses. Friendships like that cannot be reconstructed. If you plant an oak, you will hope in vain to sit soon under its shade.
For such is life. We grow rich as we plant through the early years, but then come the years when time undoes our work and cuts down our trees. One by one our comrades deprive us of their shade, and within our mourning we always feel now the secret grief of growing old.
If I search among my memories for those whose taste is lasting, if I write the balance sheet of the moments that truly counted, I surely find those that no fortune could have bought me. You cannot buy the friendship of a companion bound to you forever by ordeals endured together. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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A goal without a pan is just a wish. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Heavy clouds were putting out the stars — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Grown-ups really are decidedly odd", — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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But who will bang on their doors demanding entry? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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It is true that technical progress in modern times has linked men together like a complex nervous system. The means of travel are numerous and communication is instantaneous - we are joined together materially like the cells of a single body, but this body has as yet no soul. This organism is not yet aware of its unity as a whole. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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It's a question of discipline ... When you finish washing and dressing each morning, you must carefully wash and dress your planet. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery