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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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
Autobiographer
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Behind all seen things lies something vaster everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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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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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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