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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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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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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
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