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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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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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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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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
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Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. So that I may forget, replied the tippler. Forget what? inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. Forget that I am ashamed, the tippler confessed, hanging his head. Ashamed of what? insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. Ashamed of drinking!
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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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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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