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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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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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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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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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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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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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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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To become a man is to be responsible to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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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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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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