Quotes of Antoine De SaintExupéry - somelinesforyou

“ Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ 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. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers... ”

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“ 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... ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'? ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. ”

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“ Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ Pleasetame me!' he said. 'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.' 'One only understands the things that one tames,' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.' 'What must I do, to tame you?' asked the little prince. 'You must be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from melike thatin the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day... ”

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“ For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important? ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

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

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ Good morning," said the little prince. Good morning," said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink. Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince. Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fiftythree minutes in every week." And what do I do with those fiftythree minutes?" Anything you like..." As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fiftythree minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. ”

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“ What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well... ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ 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. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ 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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“ I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ A goal without a plan is just a wish. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry

“ 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 SaintExupéry

“ If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. ”

- Antoine de SaintExupéry
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