Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery French writer (1900 - 1944)


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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 - "The Little Prince"
- If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

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- A goal without a plan is just a wish.

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- Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
- One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

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- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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- You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
- He who would travel happily must travel light.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "The Little Prince", 1943
- Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
- Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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- 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 -
- Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
- You are beautiful, but you are empty. 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. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
- He who would travel happily must travel light.

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- I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.