Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 29, 1900

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people 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-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

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.

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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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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

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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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.

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

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

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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

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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 joys.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery