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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
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I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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