Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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.
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.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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