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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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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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One must observe the proper rites.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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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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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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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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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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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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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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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
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The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
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