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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: , US: ; French: [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃t‿ɛɡzypeʁi] ), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.

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Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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-Exupéry

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

He who would travel happily must travel light.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

You must begin by assuming responsibility. And you alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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-Exupéry

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-Exupéry