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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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