Antoine de Saint Exupéry quotes - page 3

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. These prison walls that this age of trade has built up round us, we can break down. We can still run free, call to our comrades, and marvel to hear once more, in response to our call, the impassioned chant of the human voice. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
What makes the desert beautiful", said the little prince, "is that it hides, somewhere, a well. View quote
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself, than to judge others. View quote
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The one thing that matters is the effort. View quote
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. View quote
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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. View quote
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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. View quote
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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. View quote
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. View quote
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. View quote
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. View quote
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. View quote
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. View quote
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I remembered the fox. You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. View quote
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It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
It seems to me that those who complain of man's progress confuse ends with means. View quote
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. View quote
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. View quote
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Love does not cause suffering what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. View quote
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Occupation: French Writer
Born: June 29, 1900
Died: July 31, 1944
Quotes count: 149
Wikipedia: Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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