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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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Peace, War, Adventure

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

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Men, Unity, Together

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

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Equality, Men, Contemplation
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

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Responsibility, Genius, Want
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

He who must travel happily must travel light.

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Inspirational, Travel, Light

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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Flower, Sheep, Doe

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

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Freedom, Mean, Men
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

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Memories, Treasure, Acorns

How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.

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Stars, Businessman, Knows
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.62, eKitap Projesi

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

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Flower, Snakes, Earth

One must observe the proper rites.

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

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

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Mystery, Dare, Overpowering
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

Only the children know what they are looking for. 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.

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Children, Yawning, Important

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

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Relationship, Spring, Water
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.108, eKitap Projesi

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

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Men, Fire, History
"Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. IX), 1936.

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

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Grief, Despair, Misery

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

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War, Action, Truck

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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Stones, Way, Sun
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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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Spring, Water, Three

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

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Failure, Boredom, Defeat
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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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Home, Men, Thinking

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

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Men, Wheat Fields, Monotonous Life
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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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Stars, Laughter, Flower
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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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Desire, Creation, Multitudes

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

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Confidence, Courage, Fear

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