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Things Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 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…
- 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…
- The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
- The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see…
- The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:…
- What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
- Night, when words fade and things come alive.
- True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
- Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important…
- The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
- I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
- We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it…
- Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one…
- The only things you learn are the things you tame
- Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
- All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are…
- We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
- More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
- A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and…
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