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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards 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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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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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason some come to learn and others come to teach.
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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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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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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