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One only really sees with the heart.
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
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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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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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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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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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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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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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
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I shall never again admire a merely brave man.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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