Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes - Page 11

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

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  Firsts, Reason, Accepted

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• I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

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  Sympathy, Land, Empathy

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• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

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  Tree, Too Late, May

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

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• She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

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  Regret, Flower, Men

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• One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

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  Sister, Brother, Sibling

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

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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 above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.

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  Stars, Ocean, Men

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• A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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  Men, Civilization, Progress

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• I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

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  Believe, Bird, Migration

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

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  Distance, Men, Civilization

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

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• You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.

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  Flower, World, Four

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• It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

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  Love, Opportunity, Bars

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• True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

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  Crush, Equality, Men

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• For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

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  Conceited, Men, Admirer

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.54, eKitap Projesi

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• One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

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  Sunset, One Day, Four

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.35, eKitap Projesi

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• There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

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  Freedom, Men, Law

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

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• Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

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  Lying, Clouds, Sea

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. I), 1939.

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• What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

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  Fruit, Method, Aim

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. IX), 1936.

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• The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

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  Song, Jobs, Night

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• If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

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  Inspiring, Leadership, Work

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• One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

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  Sunset, One Day, Four

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• For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.

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  Heart, Three, Cost

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• If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

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  Leadership, Would Be, Faults

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• Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

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  Love, Beautiful, Country

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

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• What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

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  Love, Anger, Hatred

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