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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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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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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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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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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It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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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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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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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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