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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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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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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
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If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
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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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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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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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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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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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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
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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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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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