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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
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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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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
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One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times! And a little later you added: You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad... Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets? But the little prince made no reply.
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
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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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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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He who must travel happily must travel light.
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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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