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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.

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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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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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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Grown ups are certainly very strange.
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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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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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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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