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But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Profession: Novelist
Nationality: French

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The men where you live, said the little prince, raise five thousand roses in the same garden– and they do not find in it what they are looking for.

Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

My flower is somewhere out there...

The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold.

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remember even the misery with tenderness.

So I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters with lots of serious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range...which hasn't much improved my opinion of them.

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

But the season is advancing and one must make haste; but the season is advancing and still one cannot leave; but the season is advancing ... and other men will glean the harvest.

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.

Once it was believed that to bring these creatures to manhood it was enough to feed them, clothe them, and look to their everyday needs; but we see now that the result of this has been to turn out petty shopkeepers, village politicians, hollow technicians devoid of an inner life.

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

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