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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to 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
Aircraft Pilot
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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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One day, you said to me, I saw the sunset forty-four times! And a little later you added: You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad... Were you so sad, then? I asked, on the day of the forty-four sunsets? But the little prince made no reply.
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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
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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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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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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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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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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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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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One only really sees with the heart.
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The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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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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And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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