Antoine de Saint-Exupery on misunderstanding
Antoine de Saint-Exupery95 quotes“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery Language is the source of misunderstandings.
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