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Selected Quotes
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 
1900-1944; French military & commercial pilot, author of "The Little Prince"

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
 
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
 
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
 
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
 
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
 
To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
 
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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