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Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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I am who I am and I have the need to be.
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But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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