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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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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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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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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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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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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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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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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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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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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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