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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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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Intelligence is not creative judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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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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Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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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.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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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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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
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