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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

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Men, Select, Mankind

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

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Love, Inspirational, Marriage

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

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Science, Intelligent, Hands

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

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Soldier, Accessories, Body

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

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Strong, Loss, Men

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

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Forget, Forget A Friend

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

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War, Making Love, Soldier

And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.

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Children, Yawning, Important

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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Life, Creativity, Adventure
"Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

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Block, Past, Men

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

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Stars, Light, People

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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Heart, Hours, Ready
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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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Eye, Looks, Foxes

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

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Home, Machines, Barbarians

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

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Shine On, Wheat Fields, Shining

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

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May, Forget, Figures

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

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War, Sometimes, Businessman
"Letter to an American". Essay by Antoine de Saint Exupery, www.416th.com. July 1944.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

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Goal, Effort, Matter

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

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Art, Rain, Color

I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.

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Stars, Fun, Spring

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

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Hair, Hands, Wind
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

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Children, Understanding, Way

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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Inspiring, Success, Writing

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

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World, Found, Framework
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

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Firsts, Reason, Accepted

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