Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Aviator

Philosophical

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”

Perfection Simplicity Add

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Aviator

Love

“I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.”

Thinking Littles Flower

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Lonely

“I was too young to know how to love her.”

Young How To Love

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Peaceful

“A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.”

Stars Water

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Inspired

“Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.”

Grief Despair Misery

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Determined

“There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.”

Growth Organization

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Philosophical

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

Life Ifs

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Determined

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”

Men Inspirational Steps

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Inspired

“Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.”

People Believe Sweat

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Courageous

“Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.”

Two Freedom Integrity

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Creative

“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”

Men Reflection Echoes

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Love

“But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.”

Different Sound Sunshine

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