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Inspirational Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

47 Inspirational quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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A ship sails when hearts yearn for the sea. Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry shows that teaching people to imagine the vast ocean is stronger than giving orders, and that caring for something we tame makes us forever responsible. He also notes that words can cause mix‑ups and that loneliness grows when we stay earth‑bound.

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

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No one is ever satisfied where he is.

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

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

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

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One must observe the proper rites.

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Night, when words fade and things come alive.

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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

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“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”

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“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

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C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

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

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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

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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…

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“Must be some missing, though, to my way of thinking. The ones you win a war with. Have some supper?”

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“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible,…

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“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what…

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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the…

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What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit…

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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead,…

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“She wished to appear only in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh yes, she was quite vain! And her mysterious adornment…

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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by…

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“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece. “Tell me,” I said…

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“Something in one's heart takes fright, not at the thought of growing old, not at feeling one's youth used up in this…

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“I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them…

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“Er is slechts één rijkdom en dat zijn de banden tussen de mensen onderling. Als we ons enkel en alleen inspannen voor…

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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

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

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

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He who must travel happily must travel light.

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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

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“Before they grow so big, the baobabs start out by being little.”

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“Tu te tornas eternamente responsável por aquilo que cativas".”

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

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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

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Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

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

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Man is, above all, he who creates.

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“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away”

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“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.…

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“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”

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“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.”

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“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you”

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential…

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

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“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed…

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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

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“Stretched out before the fire I looked at the glowing fruit and said to myself that men did not know what an orange was.…

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