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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
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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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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Grown ups are certainly very strange.
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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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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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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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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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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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