Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a renowned French writer and aviator, was born on June 29, 1900. Best known for his timeless novella "The Little Prince," his work continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Saint-Exupery's adventurous spirit led him to a fruitful career in aviation, where he piloted mail planes across treacherous routes. His experiences served as inspiration for his literary masterpieces, as he explored themes of love, friendship, and the pursuit of dreams. With his unique storytelling style, Saint-Exupery's words have resonated with readers of all ages. Discover the enchanting world of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and immerse yourself in his captivating narratives.

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

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You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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

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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

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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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

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

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

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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

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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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Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

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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.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

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

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

- 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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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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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.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery