"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox.……" — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"
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338 Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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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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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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