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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

French Novelist June 29, 1900 – July 31, 1944

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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the color of..."
It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the color of the wheat fields. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man..."
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie..."
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."Men have forgotten this truth," said the Fox "But you must not forget it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince."So that I may forget," replied the tippler."Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him."Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head."Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him."Ashamed of drinking! Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's sudden vision of a road that is long prepared. Gradually I learned grammar. I practiced syntax. My feelings were awakened. Then a poem suddenly blazed in my heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only..."
Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what..."
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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