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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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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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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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One must observe the proper rites.
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
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