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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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 friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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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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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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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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I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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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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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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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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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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