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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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Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
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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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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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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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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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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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No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.
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I wonder, he said, whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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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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