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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
Autobiographer
Essayist
Illustrator
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Lyons
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason some come to learn and others come to teach.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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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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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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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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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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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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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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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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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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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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