Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

· 1900 - 1944 · 113 kata bijak

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.

Motivasi

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

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Persahabatan

People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.

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Keberanian

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

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Cinta

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

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Cinta

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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Cinta

Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.

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Kehidupan

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

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Cinta

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

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Cinta

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

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Cinta

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...

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Seni

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

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Motivasi

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

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Kehidupan

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

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Motivasi

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

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Motivasi

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

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Motivasi

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

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Motivasi

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

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Motivasi

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

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Motivasi

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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Motivasi

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

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