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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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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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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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. -from the Fox-
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Intelligence is not creative judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
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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 thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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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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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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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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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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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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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
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