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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
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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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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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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I still fall for your everyday.
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I am who I am and I have the need to be.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
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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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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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