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Antoine De Saint Exupery Inspirational Quotes (213)

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That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
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One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times! And a little later you added: You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad... Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets? But the little prince made no reply.
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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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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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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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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for 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 one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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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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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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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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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
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I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
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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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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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