Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes - Page 14

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• When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

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  Unique, World

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• Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

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  Heart, Needs, Natural

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• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

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  Heart, Eye, People

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• Where I live, everything is very small.

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  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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• It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .

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  Heart, Jumping, Worry

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• You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

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  Drunk, Water, Tree

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• Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

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  Creativity, Stones, Way

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• He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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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 already defeated.

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  Success, Heart, Achievement

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• But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

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  Power, Games, Would Be

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• It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

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  Cost, May, Captains

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• Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

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  Witty, Lying, Trying

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• When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

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  Prove, Dies, Unbelief

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• I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

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  Running, Risk, Foxes

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• You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

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  Men, Mushrooms

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• I am a fox", the fox said.

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  Foxes, Said

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• Only the children know what they are looking for.

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  Children, Yawning, Knows

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• It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

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  War, Broken, Bread

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• It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

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  Judging, Luck, Hard

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• I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?

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  Silly, Sunday, People

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• The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

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  Life, Order, Hateful

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

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• What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

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  Stars, Flower, Love Is

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• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

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  War, Sacrifice, Judging

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

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• What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

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  Men, Desire, Language

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• Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

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  Garden, Museums, Dancing

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