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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

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Rivers, Water, Unity

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

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Opposites, Suffering, Doe
"'Citadelle' ('The Wisdom of the Sands')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1948.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

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Philosophy, Butterfly, Wish

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

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Inspiring, Peace, Ubuntu

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

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Who I Am, I Am Who I Am, Needs

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

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Stars, Men, Light

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

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Generations, Passwords, Transmit

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

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Wise, Men, Judging Yourself

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

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Thinking, Fog, Snow

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

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Sweet, Stars, Flower
"Fictional character: The Little Prince". "The Little Prince", www.imdb.com. 2015.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

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Memories, Men, Getting Older

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

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Stars, Giving, House

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

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Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

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Silence, Desert, Gleam

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

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Life, Education, Learning
"Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. II), 1939.

In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

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Running, Flower, Silly

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

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Nature, Travel, Earth
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

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Sunset, Looks
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.34, eKitap Projesi

Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.

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Love Is, Together, Looks

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

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Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

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Relationship, Joy, Problem

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

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Sad, Sorrow, Vibrations

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

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Hands, Opinion, Deals
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.15, eKitap Projesi

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

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Sympathy, Missing You, Death

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

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Important

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