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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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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Intelligence is not creative judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
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If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
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I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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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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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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