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Love Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

72 Love quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Seeing with the heart lets you notice what eyes miss, like the secret that love is invisible. Many quotes speak of love as a shared direction, breathing together toward a common good. Simple joys such as sleep and sunsets also appear as tiny love moments.

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I was too young to know how to love her.

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

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“However I was too young to know how to love her.”

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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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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

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

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

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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived…

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Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

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

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

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

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

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

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true…

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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have…

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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…

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that…

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Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not…

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“And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures,…

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What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow…

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“Yes, yes, of course I love you. You had no idea -- which is my fault. It is of no consequence. But…

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“You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is of no use whatever. Wheat fields say…

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“It would have been better to come back at the same time of the day,'said the fox. 'For instance, if you come…

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“At the time, I was unable to understand anything.! I should have based my judgement upon deeds and not words. She cast…

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“The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. "You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As…

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“The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by…

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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They…

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On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The…

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“What must I do, to tame you?” asked the little prince. “You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will…

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“Please-tame me!' he said. 'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends…

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“Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all…

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“It is not by way of language that I shall transmit what is within me; for it is inexpressible in words. I…

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“Inside the narrow skull of the miner pinned beneath the fallen timber, there lives a world. Parents, friends, a home, the hot…

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“For love is greater than any wind of words. And man, leaning at his window under the stars, is once again responsible…

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

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“Love is worth everything. EVERYTHING”

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

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

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