De Saint Exupery Quotes

#1. You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

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#2. ...In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing

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#3. You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.

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#4. I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words

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#5. I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons ...

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#6. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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#7. But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

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#8. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it : it is yours. So with me : I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them.

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#9. Your path lies across the stars.

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#10. He who would travel happy must travel lite.

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#11. Only the children know what they are looking for.

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#12. We don't ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

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#13. Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

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#14. The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

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#15. To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work together in the same direction.

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#16. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

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#17. What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

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#18. You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water ...

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#19. Where I live, everything is very small.

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#20. In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey.

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#21. Quote #2
I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted.

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#22. It's much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

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#23. When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond
myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.

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#24. I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

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#25. Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

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#26. The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

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#27. Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.

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#28. The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

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#29. I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

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#30. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution.

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#31. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

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#32. Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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#33. For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

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#34. What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

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#35. You are beautiful, but you are empty", he went on. "One could not die for you.

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#36. It's good to have a friend. Even if you're going to die.

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#37. I needed to believe that those on whom I depended for my orientations were more fixed and enduring that myself. So as to know where to return to. So as to continue existing.

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#38. ...misunderstood and forgotten, you have great truths within you if only anyone would bother to look.

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#39. Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?

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#40. When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

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#41. Watch out for the Baobabs!

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#42. Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.

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#43. Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

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#44. For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

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#45. You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them ... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night ... You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

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#46. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

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#47. I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

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#48. The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

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#49. All the stars are a riot of flowers.

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#50. I still fall for your everyday.

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#51. You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

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#52. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.

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#53. To vain men, other people are admirers.

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#54. It's worth it, it's worth the final smash-up.

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#55. The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

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#56. Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

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#57. You are beautiful, but you are empty

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#58. One must look with the heart.

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#59. It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

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#60. My flower is somewhere out there...

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#61. You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

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#62. He who never says "no" is no true man.

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#63. And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.

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#64. The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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#65. No one is ever satisfied where he is.

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#66. I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

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#67. What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere ...

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#68. 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.

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#69. When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

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#70. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad.

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#71. 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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#72. An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

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#73. I admire you", said the little prince, with a little shrug of his shoulders, "but what is there about my admiration that interests you so much?

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#74. Will you draw me a sheep?

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#75. 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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#76. I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

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#77. Yes, yes, of course I love you,' the flower said to him at last. 'You have no idea - which is my fault.

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#78. It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

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#79. Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?"
"I solve them all" said the snake

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#80. You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.

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#81. Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

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#82. Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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#83. That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself correctly, then you are truly a man of wisdom.

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#84. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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#85. Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

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#86. If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?' the king demanded. 'The general, or myself?

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#87. Man is, above all, he who creates.

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#88. People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden ... yet they don't find what they are looking for.

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#89. Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

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#90. He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation.

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#91. Only the Spirit, if it breathe upon the clay, can create Man.

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#92. What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible ...

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#93. 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

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#94. Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

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#95. How is it possible for one to own the stars?"
"To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly.
"I don't know. To nobody.

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#96. 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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#97. No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

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#98. The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

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#99. And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

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#100. Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

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