"No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within……" — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him."
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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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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will…
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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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