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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
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Philosopher
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Grown ups are certainly very strange.
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I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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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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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. -from the Fox-
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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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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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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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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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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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