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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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One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times! And a little later you added: You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad... Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets? But the little prince made no reply.
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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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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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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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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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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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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* 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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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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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That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
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