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To become a man is to be responsible to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
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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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
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He who never says no is no true man.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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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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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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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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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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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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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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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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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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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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