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But I, alas, do not know how to see sheep through the walls of boxes. Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.
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The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck. I felt his heart beating like the heart of a dying bird, shot with someone's rifle ...
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
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What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well ...
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And were you very, very sad on the day you watched fourty-four sunsets?
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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
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Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.
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But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.
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How do we tell the difference between an image and an act of will?
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Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution.
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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You only see clearly with your heart. The most important things are invisible to the eyes.
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I will make you a present of a secret.
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True pleasure is the pleasure of sharing.
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One must observe the proper rites.
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You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
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It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
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Watch out for the Baobabs!
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It's worth it, it's worth the final smash-up.
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It's all a great mystery ... Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
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No one hated these ghost of mine, no one envied them, no one pestered them. Nor did anyone love them with the only love that matters.
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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
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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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The house, the stars, the desert
what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
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And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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It is your own fault, said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . .
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4 I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! But
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night.
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The essential is invisible to eyes
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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For a long time your only entertainment was the pleasure of sunsets.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey.
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But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
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All the stars are a riot of flowers.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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Yes, yes, of course I love you,' the flower said to him at last. 'You have no idea - which is my fault.
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It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. But you are of no use to the stars ...
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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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Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?"
"I solve them all" said the snake — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"I solve them all" said the snake — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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One feels rather lonely in the dessert.'
'It is just as lonely among men. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
'It is just as lonely among men. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.
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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
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When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond
myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
How is it possible for one to own the stars?"
"To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly.
"I don't know. To nobody. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly.
"I don't know. To nobody. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work together in the same direction.
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The only things you learn are the things you tame
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert.
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The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.
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I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable ones.
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It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little
bells that knew how to laugh ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
bells that knew how to laugh ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
One sees clearly only with the heart, anything that is essential is invisible to the eye.- The Little Prince
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It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
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True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
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It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
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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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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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I admire you", said the little prince, with a little shrug of his shoulders, "but what is there about my admiration that interests you so much?
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
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The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings ...
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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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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
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To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction.
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Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
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Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.
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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower ... I think that she has tamed me ...
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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