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Night, when words fade and things come alive.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

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Night, Alive, Fades
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

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Life, Philosophy, Events

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

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Inspirational, Life, Creativity
"Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1942.

A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

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Smile, Keys, Quality
1943 Lettre a' un otage.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

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Conceited, Men, People

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

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Eye, Essentials, Invisible
"'Le Petit Prince' ('The Little Prince'". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

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Generations, Ships, Crosses
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “Generation To Generation”

The only things you learn are the things you tame

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Determination, Persistence

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

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Inspirational, Sweet Love, Book
Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

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Inspirational, Men, Forever
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

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Stars, Flower, Pride

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

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Angel, Flesh, Sparks

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

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Priceless, Life Is, Human Life
Night Flight ch. 14 (1931)

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

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Children, Age, Pity
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

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Past, Yesterday, Use

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

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Light, Order, Feelings

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

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Men, Poetry, Soul

I still fall for your everyday.

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Happy Anniversary, Fall, Everyday

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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Fear, Business, Responsibility
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

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Airplane, Mean, People

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

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Morning, Responsibility, Discipline

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

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World, Way, Foxes

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

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Funny, Letting Go, Witty
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

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Father, Butterfly, Thinking

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

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Princess, Heart, Garden

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