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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 sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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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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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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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
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A goal without a pan is just a wish.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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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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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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I wonder, he said, whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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