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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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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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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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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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
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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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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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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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"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."
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