Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them."
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"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
"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince
"“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince
"The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"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-Exupéry The Little Prince
"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince
"Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while" (the flower to little prince)"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Airman's Odyssey
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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