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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sleep, Clay, Musician
"'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter I: "The Craft", 1939.

It's useful because it's beautiful.

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Beautiful

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude
"The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Co., (p. 44), 1950.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

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Satisfied
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.91, eKitap Projesi

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

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Love, Happiness, Stars

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

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Inspirational, Relationship, Smile

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

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Matter, Indifference, Figures
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

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Sunshine, Sound, Different

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

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Earth, May, Precious Things

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

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Beautiful, Thinking, Rose
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.88, eKitap Projesi

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

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Stars, Lying, Eye

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

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Lonely, Loneliness, Snakes

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

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Emptiness, Existentialism, Praying

I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. 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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Mean, Boys, Unique
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.85, eKitap Projesi

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

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Pieces, Another Day, Sometimes
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.32, eKitap Projesi

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mean, Ephemeral, Danger
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Doe, Machines, Administration
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

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Sunset, Quiet, Knows

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

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Flower, Sheep, Sky

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

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Memories, Grief, Book

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

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Gratitude, Charity, Made

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Travel, Airplane, Science

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

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Fashion, Men, Together

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Temporary Defeat, May, Path
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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