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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
Aircraft Pilot
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What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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