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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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Children, Forever, Understanding

Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

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Love, Valentines Day, Giving

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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

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Forever, Responsible, Tamed

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The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

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Friendship, Birthday, Giving Up

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Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

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Truth, May, Contradicting

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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

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Important, Urgent

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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

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Smile, Order, Faces

1942 Pilote de guerre.

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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

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Broken Heart, Sadness, Hard Times

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.38, eKitap Projesi

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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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Love, Positive, Marriage

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He who would travel happy must travel lite.

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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

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Heart, Eye, Looks

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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 becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

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Night, Men, Self

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

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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

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Men, Responsible, Be A Man

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

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It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
[Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]

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Heart, Eye, Simple

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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

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Color, Credit, Impossible

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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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Life, Dog, Responsibility

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

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Inspirational, Life, Boundaries

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

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

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Inspirational, Men, Steps

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To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

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Love, Together, Looks

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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

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Body, Your Body

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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

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Judging, Difficult, Oneself

Le Petit Prince ch. 10 (1943)

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Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

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Friendship, Responsible, My Friends

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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

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Running, Risk, Littles

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.101, eKitap Projesi

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In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

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Messages, Bears, Crowds

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If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow

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Friendship, Unique, Shine On

"Fictional character: The Fox". "The Little Prince", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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