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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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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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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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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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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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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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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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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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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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But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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