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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 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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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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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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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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