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But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

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Unique, World, Needs
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.85, eKitap Projesi

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

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Stars, Sky, Water

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

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Strong, War, Distance

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

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Dream, Believe, Ignorance

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

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Men, Brave, Admire

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

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Beautiful, You Re Beautiful, Empty
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

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Believe, Sweat, People

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

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Song, Stars, Memories

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

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Beautiful

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

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Men, Order, Sea

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

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Letting Go, Reality, Order

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

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Beautiful, Flower, Rejection

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

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Play, Wish, Littles

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.

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Stars, Night, Sky

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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Love, Flirty, Flirting

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. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.

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Morning, Discipline, Littles

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

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Demand, Dignity, Individual

I was too young to know how to love her.

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How To Love, Flower Love, Young
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.43, eKitap Projesi

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

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Beautiful, Butterfly, Thinking

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

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Running, Flower, Radiance

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

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Heart, Eye, Garden

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

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Freedom, Integrity, Two

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

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Fear, Men, Terrorism

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

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Arrogant, Bulls, Care

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