Am Ende geht einer doch immer dahin, wohin es ihn zieht.
English translation: “No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
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| 07:45 Aug 21, 2015 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Quote from "The Little Prince" | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Ramey Rieger (X) Germany Local time: 14:13 | ||||||
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| For info - Pilote de Guerre/Flug nach Arras/Flight to Arras |
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2 hrs confidence: 
People always end up where they want to go. Explanation: Putting it literally. |
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17 mins confidence:
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.” Explanation: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?commit=Search&page=2... Perhaps? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 mins (2015-08-21 08:07:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Why not? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 32 mins (2015-08-21 08:17:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?commit=Search&page=8... This is much more obscure, and I'm pretty sure it's the first one, but... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2015-08-21 11:30:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In the end, we all go where we feel most at home..../ we naturally gravitate towards the place we feel most welcome.... but certainly not as a quote from The Little Prince |
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2 days 9 hrs confidence:
In the end, people always wind up in the place they felt drawn to from the start Explanation: Well, we can always make up our own translations which is not particular difficult in this case, anyway. |
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6 hrs peer agreement (net): +5 |
| Reference: For info - Pilote de Guerre/Flug nach Arras/Flight to Arras Reference information: The quote is indeed by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, but not from The Little Prince. It is in fact from Pilote de Guerre (Flight to Arras / Flug nach Arras) Celui qui marche vers sa maison, j’ignore s’il marche vers la querelle ou vers l’amour. Je me demanderai : « Quel homme est-il ? » Alors seulement je connaîtrai vers où il pèse, et où il ira. On va toujours, en fin de compte, vers où l’on pèse. http://www.ebooks-bnr.com/ebooks/html/saint_exupery_pilote_d... Here is a man striding towards his home: I cannot say if he is going towards quarrel or towards love. I can ask myself only this: "What sort of man is he?" And when I know that, only then shall I know by what lodestone he is impelled, and where he is bound. For in the end man always gravitates in the direction commanded by the lodestone within him. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ulh-yhlmN8cC&printsec=fr... |
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