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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
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I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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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.
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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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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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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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Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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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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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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