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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. -from the Fox-

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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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Philosopher
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. So that I may forget, replied the tippler. Forget what? inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. Forget that I am ashamed, the tippler confessed, hanging his head. Ashamed of what? insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. Ashamed of drinking!
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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It's a question of discipline, the little prince told me later on. When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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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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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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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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