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I wonder, he said, whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
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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