Best quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Man
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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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‟ Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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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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‟ I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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‟ Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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‟ It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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‟ He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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‟ Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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‟ To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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‟ 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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‟ 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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‟ 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.
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‟ We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
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