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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
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
Autobiographer
Essayist
Illustrator
Journalist
Novelist
Philosopher
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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