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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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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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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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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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