"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes (page 16 of 18)
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"He who never says "no" is no true man."
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"In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her."
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"You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed."
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"The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property."
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"We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language."
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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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"No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him."
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"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."
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"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."
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"She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret."
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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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"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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"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-"
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"Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries."
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"No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others."
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"No one is ever satisfied where he is."
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"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another."
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"How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly."
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"Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?"
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