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Behind all seen things lies something vaster everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
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 time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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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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I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
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It's a question of discipline, the little prince told me later on. When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.
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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 someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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I still fall for your everyday.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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