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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditati...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY 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 Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of m...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurr...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY He who must travel happily must travel light.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were so...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

Ah," s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travele...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars ar...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert�...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butte...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living....
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsibl...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

"It is an act too often neglected...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY That was how the little prince tamed the fox. And when the time was near:
"Ah!" the fox said. "...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The little prince went back to look at the roses again.
"You're not at all like my rose. You'r...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Hoşça kal,“ dedi tilki. "İşte sana bir sır, çok basit bir şey: İnsan yalnız yüreğiyle d...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need o...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It's all a great mystery. For you, who love the little prince, too. As for me, nothing in the univer...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while" (the flower to little...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
a sheep eats whatever it finds
even a flow...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets oneself be tamed...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY ,Grown-ups love figures. When you describe a new friend to them, they never ask you about the import...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge oth...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether hars...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have
no more time to un...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Only the children know what they are looking for.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet y...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questio...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY