"What he had yearned to embrace was not……" — Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."
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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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Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.
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Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
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