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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
Aircraft Pilot
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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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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
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The strong are strengthened by reverses the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.
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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
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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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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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