Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together 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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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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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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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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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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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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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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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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