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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

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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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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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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