"My drawing was not a picture of a……" — Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant."
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Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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338 Quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry has 338 quotes on this site.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will…
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one,…
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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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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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the…
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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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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OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle…
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You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you…
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra.…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather…
— Susan Minot
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to…
— William James
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I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
— Boy George
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
— George Stevens
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra……
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it…
— Max Arthur Macauliffe
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When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I…
— Geri Halliwell
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