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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

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Unique, World

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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Heart, Needs, Natural

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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Heart, Eye, People

Where I live, everything is very small.

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Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .

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Heart, Jumping, Worry

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

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Drunk, Water, Tree

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

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Creativity, Stones, Way

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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Beautiful, Stars, Flower

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

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Success, Heart, Achievement

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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Power, Games, Would Be

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

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Cost, May, Captains

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

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Purpose, Horror, Prison

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

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Running, Risk, Foxes

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

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Men, Sight, Littles

Only the children know what they are looking for.

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Children, Yawning, Knows

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!

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Sorry, Drinking, May

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

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Life, Order, Hateful
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

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Stars, Flower, Love Is

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

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Long, Responsible, Long Time

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

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War, Sacrifice, Judging
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

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Judging, Luck, Hard

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

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Garden, Museums, Dancing

You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

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Men, Mushrooms

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

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Men, Desire, Language

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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Suffering, Belief, Conviction

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