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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
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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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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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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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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Grown ups are certainly very strange.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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One only really sees with the heart.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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