A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Life
- 1900-1944
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot, novelist, children's writer
- Notable works
- Night Flight, The Little Prince, Southern Mail
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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Children," I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs!"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Children, I say plainly, "watch out for the baobabs!"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.
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I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more. It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
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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.
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. chapter 1
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
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"The proof that the little prince existed is that he laughed, and tha the was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The proof that the little prince existed is that he laughed, and tha the was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The proof that the little prince existed is that he laughed, and that the was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists. chapter 4
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You know - one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..."
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. chapter 6
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