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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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It's a question of discipline, the little prince told me later on. When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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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 field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
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The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
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Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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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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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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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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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.
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