Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

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Jobs, Ocean, People

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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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Opportunity, Reason, Teach

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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

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Inspiring, Dream, Your Dreams

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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

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Leadership, Future, Planning Ahead

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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Love, Inspirational, Life

Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Love, Inspirational, Life

Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

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Life, Hurt, Spring

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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

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Perfection

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Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

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Attitude, Color, Stay Positive

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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

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Real, Love You, Carpe Diem

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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

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Shapes, Action, Forecasts

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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

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Morning, Memories, Together

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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

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Success, Responsibility, Assuming

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You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

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Stars, Night, Sky

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

"The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

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Stars, Night, Bells

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.110, eKitap Projesi

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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

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Inspirational, Goal, Mind

Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

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True Love, Love Is, Giving

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A goal without a pan is just a wish.

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Goal, Wish

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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

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Inspirational, Children, Remember

"The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943.

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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 unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

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Memories, Regret, Grief

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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Inspirational, Attitude, Philosophy

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Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

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Lying, Path, Portal

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A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

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Stars, Spring, Night

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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Born: June 29, 1900
Died: July 31, 1944
Occupation: Writer
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