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Straight ahead you can't go very far.

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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Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
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If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
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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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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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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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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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