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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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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times! And a little later you added: You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad... Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets? But the little prince made no reply.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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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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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
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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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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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