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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

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
Essayist
Illustrator
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de St. Exupery
Saint-Exupery
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Silence
Throbs
Loved
Gleams
Gleam
Nothing
Hears
Something
Sits
Always
Sand
Desert
Sees
Dune

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