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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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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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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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