Antoine de Saint Exupéry quotes - page 5

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you. View quote
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes... View quote
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Straight ahead you can't go very far. View quote
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... View quote
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom! View quote
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What do we mean by setting a man free You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. View quote
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Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. View quote
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. View quote
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough tensity and he will set fire to the whole world. View quote
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No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Contrary to the vulgar illusion, it is thanks to the metal, and by virtue of it, that the pilot rediscovers nature. As I have already said, the machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. View quote
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I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through. View quote
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I had a vision of the face of destiny. View quote
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Have you looked at a modern airplane? Have you followed from year to year the evolution of its lines? View quote
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You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. View quote
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It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. View quote
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But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity. View quote
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All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning. View quote
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Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but-. View quote
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This viscous whiteness became in my mind the frontier between the real and the unreal, between the known and the unknowable. Already I was beginning to realize that a spectacle has no meaning except it be seen through the glass of a culture, a civilization, a craft. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Human drama does not show itself on the surface of life. It is not played out in the visible world, but in the hearts of men. View quote
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There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations. View quote
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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him. View quote
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. View quote
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