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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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The strong are strengthened by reverses the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
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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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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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He who must travel happily must travel light.
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