Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
He who must travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
He who must travel happily must travel light.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Travel

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

tears

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

responsibility

There is no hope of joy except in human relations. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

joy

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

love true love

Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
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how to live life future

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

freedom

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

war

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

age

In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Giving solitude

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

compassion

All grown-ups were once children... Although few of them remember it. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
All grown-ups were once children... Although few of them remember it.
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Adulthood children

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious.

aspiration

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

love

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In a civil war the firing line is invisible, it passes through the hearts of men. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
In a civil war the firing line is invisible, it passes through the hearts of men.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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life

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

passion

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude toward them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude toward them.

attitude

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisable to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisable to the eye.
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enlightenment

Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

relationships

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
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happiness

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largess of others. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largess of others.

dignity

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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design perfection

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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technology machines

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

moving forward

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.

defeat

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 quote.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

imagination vision

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

love

Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
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perfection simplicity

To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

interconnectedness

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

interesting

War is not an adventure.  It is a disease.  It is like typhus.

war

Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.

relationships

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

heart

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

love relationships

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards together in the same direction.