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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
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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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Intelligence is not creative judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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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.
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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Behind all seen things lies something vaster everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
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To live is to be slowly born.
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