Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy."
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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 joy."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"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-Exupéry
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"There is no hope or joy except in human relations."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."Were you so sad, then" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets"But the little prince made no reply."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"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-Exupéry
The Little Prince
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