Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Biography : French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

France

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Quotes

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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responsibility

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
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truth

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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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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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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contemplation

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 his inner distance.
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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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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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perfection

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

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

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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