Quotes About Love Antoine De Saint Exupery

#1. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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#2. No one hated these ghost of mine, no one envied them, no one pestered them. Nor did anyone love them with the only love that matters.

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#3. To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction.

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#4. Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.

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#5. And I love to listen to the stars at night. It is like listening to five hundred million little bells ...

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#6. And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns ... to protect me.

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#7. Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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#8. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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#9. The Little Prince - He was one of the first books I read and I sincerely love

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#10. 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.

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#11. Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

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#12. When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

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#13. Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

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#14. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens ... they will all be your friends.
-the little prince

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#15. It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

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#16. Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

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#17. The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

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#18. If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers ...

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#19. 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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#20. True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived ...

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#21. True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

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#22. One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'
And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'
'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'
But the prince made no answer.

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#23. One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.

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#24. I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower ... I think that she has tamed me ...

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#25. And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells ...

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

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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. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

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#34. Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

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#35. 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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#36. She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

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

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#38. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

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#39. 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.

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#40. Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

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#41. 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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#42. Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world.

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#43. Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.

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#44. It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

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#45. The one thing I love in life is to sleep.

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#46. You know ... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

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#47. People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.

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#48. One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

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