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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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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What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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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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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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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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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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Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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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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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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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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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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