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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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A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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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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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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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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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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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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No one is ever satisfied where he is.
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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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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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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
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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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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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