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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason some come to learn and others come to teach.

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
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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I still fall for your everyday.
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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I am who I am and I have the need to be.
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To become a man is to be responsible to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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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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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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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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