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In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

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
Autobiographer
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Illustrator
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.
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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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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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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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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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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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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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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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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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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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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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