Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

About Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.
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The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

La vérité pour l’homme, c’est qui fait de lui un homme.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nous avons accepté la règle du jeu, le jeu nous forme à son image. Le Sahara, c’est en nous qu’il se montre. L’aborder ce n’est point visiter l’oasis, c’est faire notre religion d’une fontaine.

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Mais voici qu’aujourd’hui nous avons éprouvé la soif. Et ce puits que nous connaissons, nous découvrons, aujourd’hui seulement, qu’il rayonne sure l’étendue. Une femme invisible peut enchanter ainsi toute une maison. Un puits porte loin...

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Il s'étonna de réfléchir sur des problèmes qu'il ne s'était jamais posés. Et pourtant revenait contre lui, avec un murmure mélancolique, la masse des douceurs qu'il avait toujours écartées: un océan perdu. "Tout cela est donc si proche?..."...

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And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

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And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me.

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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

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

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

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He who must travel happily must travel light.

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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.

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I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mais, dans la mort d’un homme, un monde inconnu meurt, et je me demandais quelles étaient les images qui sombraient en lui.

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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

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Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité.

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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.

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Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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 th...

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Si ce que tu as trouvé est fait de matière pure, cela ne pourrira jamais. Et tu pourras y revenir un jour. Si ce n’est qu’un instant de lumière, comme l’explosion d’une étoile, alors tu ne retrouveras rien à ton retour. Mais tu auras vu ...

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Author Bio

  • NameAntoine de Saint-Exupery
  • DescriptionFrench writer and aviator
  • AliasesAntoine de Saint-Exupéry; Antoine de Saint Exupéry
  • BornJune 29, 1900
  • DiedJuly 31, 1944
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionAviator; Poet; Novelist; Autobiographer; Journalist; Children's Writer; Essayist; Writer
  • WorksNight Flight
  • AwardsMort Pour La France; Prix Femina; National Book Award; Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Académie Française