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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
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The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason some come to learn and others come to teach.
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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
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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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Intelligence is not creative judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
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Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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To become a man is to be responsible to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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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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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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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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