"Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes (page 17 of 18)
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"I saw the sunset forty-four times!"
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"When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world"
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"I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again."
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"If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?"
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"If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water."
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"Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war."
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"We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire."
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"At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars."
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"To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause."
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"The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic."
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"When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil."
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"You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed."
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"if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?"
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"He who must travel happily must travel light."
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"But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us."
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"He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course."
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"Nothing can match the treasure of common memories."
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"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."
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"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
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