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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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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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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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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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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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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.
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But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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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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Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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