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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes about life

French Novelist June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944

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In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom! Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at..."
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
…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 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain..."
It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfillment. But of this bread men die. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of..."
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would..."
But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would not care less about figures. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a..."
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my..."
If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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