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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
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Philosopher
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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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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Where I live, everything is very small.
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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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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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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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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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One only really sees with the heart.
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One must observe the proper rites.
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What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
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Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
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To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
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Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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The strong are strengthened by reverses the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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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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