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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
Aircraft Pilot
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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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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In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
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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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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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To become a man is to be responsible to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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I wonder, he said, whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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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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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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