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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But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulfill its function, which is to whirr as a heart beats - and we give no thought to the beating of our heart. Thus, precisely because it is perfect the m...

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

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

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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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.

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man hi...

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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Love quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, UberQuotes

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

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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

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Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

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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.

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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

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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