Tag: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery