Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 29, 1900

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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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.

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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

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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.

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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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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.

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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery