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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
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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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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If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
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He who must travel happily must travel light.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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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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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
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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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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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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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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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