French - Novelist | June 29, 1900 - July 31, 1944
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
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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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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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