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What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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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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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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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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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. -from the Fox-
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Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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