Quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

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

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

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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

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

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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.

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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.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says ""I was beaten,"" he does not say ""My men were beaten"".

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