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Away Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search…
- Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
- A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a…
- In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit…
- She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the…
- On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury…
- Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and…
- And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing…
- For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years…
- You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius