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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes about understanding

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
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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is not by way of language that I shall transmit what is within me; for it is inexpressible in words. I can but signify this insofar as you may understand it through other channels than the spoken word; by love's miracle or because, born of the same God, we are akin. Else I have to drag it out, laboriously--that sunken world within me. And thus, as my clumsiness avails, I display this or that aspect alone--as in the case of my mountain, of which I may say merely that it is high. But it is... 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
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
I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.'I said nothing.'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.'I said nothing.'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...'I said nothing.'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...'I said nothing.'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes... And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains with which they were spattered. I have seen a janitor's wife come out of her cellar and douse the sullied pavement with a bucket of water, and I am still unable to understand what part these humble slaughterhouse accidents play in warfare. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There..."
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We understand? that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Children should show great understanding towrds grown-ups"
Children should show great understanding towrds grown-ups Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them...."
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Children understand."
Children understand. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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