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There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Organization, Growth, Fulfillment
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

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Lying, Sacrifice, Self

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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Stars, Flower, Sheep

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

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Men, Causes, Misery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

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Truth, Sleep, Men

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

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Sleep, Loss, Suffering

I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

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Elephants, Drawing, Hats

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

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Sheep, Want, Littles
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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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Stars, Heaven, One Day

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

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Men, Matter

I saw the sunset forty-four times!

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Sunset, Four, Saws

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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Nature, Science, Technology
"Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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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Change, Men, Two

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

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Laughter, Taken, Lovely
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.22, eKitap Projesi

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

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Believe, Flower, Weapons

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

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Soul, Would Be, Littles
"Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1942.

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.

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Perfection, Simplicity, Add
"Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

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Night, Airports, Light

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

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Fighting, Advice, Mind
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.

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Night, Blue, Dragons
"'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter I: "The Craft", 1939.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

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Flower, Grace, One Day
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.42, eKitap Projesi

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

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Distance, Two, Feet

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

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Elephants, Drawing, Hats
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.14, eKitap Projesi

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

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Wheat Fields, Color, Foxes

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Children, Men, Frightened
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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