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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
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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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Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. So that I may forget, replied the tippler. Forget what? inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. Forget that I am ashamed, the tippler confessed, hanging his head. Ashamed of what? insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. Ashamed of drinking!
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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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