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Discover the profound wisdom of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry through a collection of his most memorable quotes. Explore themes of love, purpose, and the human spirit. This video celebrates the insights of this celebrated author, alongside other literary giants.

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00:00It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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00:10What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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00:20No one has ever bought anything from a writer.
00:24You've got to give it to them for free.
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00:32If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood, don't assign them tasks, and don't
00:38tell them where to go.
00:40Instead, stir up people's longing for the vast and endless sea.
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00:50We don't live just to eat and drink.
00:53We live to do things, to accomplish things, to see things.
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01:03It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and not the disintegration of being.
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01:14Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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01:26It is better to be forgotten than to be a traitor.
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01:35True civilization must not be measured by the number of machines or the power of armies, but by the richness
01:41of its culture and the greatness of its art.
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01:49You are young, you are eager, you are on the side of justice.
01:54What else can you want?
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02:01The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that does not exist anywhere else.
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02:12A child can teach an adult three things, to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something,
02:18and to know how to ask for what they want.
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02:26The most ancient and the most human of all the things that man does, is to create.
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02:36Love is not about looking at each other, it's about looking in the same direction.
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02:47You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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02:56It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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03:08The engineers who build the future are not those who know how to build machines, but those who know how
03:14to build men.
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03:20We must not for a moment forget that there is no such thing as a little country.
03:26The way that is said and thought in France is of immense importance for the world.
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03:36The airplane is not a sport.
03:39It is a mission.
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03:46The greatest danger is not to dare.
03:49The greatest danger is to stop.
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