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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

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
Essayist
Illustrator
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
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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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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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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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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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No one is ever satisfied where he is.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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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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The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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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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