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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.
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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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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. So that I may forget, replied the tippler. Forget what? inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. Forget that I am ashamed, the tippler confessed, hanging his head. Ashamed of what? insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. Ashamed of drinking!
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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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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
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What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
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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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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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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.
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To become a man is to be responsible to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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