All Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Barters
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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
Creative
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the…
Alliance
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Airplane
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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived....
Deceived
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Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite
Cause
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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
All
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
All
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
Any
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Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the…
Collect
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
Discovery
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It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
Conflict
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is…
Achievement
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
Accepting
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
Every Person
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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
Been
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
Awaken
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
Age
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
Belonging
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We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
Afraid
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
Civilization
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way…
Chakra
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Heart
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
Aspect
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To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
Direction
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