Tag: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery