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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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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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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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I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
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If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
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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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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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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
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It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
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