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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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 destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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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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That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
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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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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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One must observe the proper rites.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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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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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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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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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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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 dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
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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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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.
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