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Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Ye...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garcons. Et je n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What set...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Truth is the language that expresses universality. Newton did not “discover” a law that lay hidd...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of d...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY الحب ليس هو أن نتبادل النظرات وانما أن ننظر معا في اتجا�...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY لعل عظمة مهنة من المهن هي، قبل كل شيء، في التوحيد بين ال...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags w...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulf...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Bit by bit, nevertheless, it comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can r...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY لا شيء، أبدا، في الواقع، يحل محل الرفيق المفقود. لا نست�...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY و تدلنا التجربة أن الحب ليس أن ينظر بعضنا إلى بعض ، وإنم...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizon...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, ‘Wha...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall ne...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man find...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer harden...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel th...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be u...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The machine which at first blush seems a means of isolating man from the great problems of nature, a...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY - Adiós -dijo el zorro-. He aquí mi secreto, que no puede ser más simple: sólo con el corazón s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Ik zal naar je kijken vanuit mijn ooghoek. En jij zal niets zeggen. Woorden zijn de bron van misvers...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY il n'est ni sagesse, ni calcul, ni science de l'eau quand elle dissout les digues et engloutit les v...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Mais, ce n'est pas un homme, c'est un champignon!
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I am who I am and I have the need to be.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Một chiến thắng làm suy yếu một dân tộc này, một chiến bại làm thức tỉnh m...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction
ANTOINE DE SAINT Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is ...
—ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY, THE LITTLE PRINCE One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential a...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY He who would travel happily must travel light
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it i...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into wh...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, si...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, si...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha...
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