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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for 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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I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
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Grown ups are certainly very strange.
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One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times! And a little later you added: You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad... Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets? But the little prince made no reply.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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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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