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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

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Sleep, Clay, Musician

"'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter I: "The Craft", 1939.

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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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Perfection, Add

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If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

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Mean, Sheep, Want

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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

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Friendship, Hate, Love You

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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

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Pieces, Another Day, Sometimes

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.32, eKitap Projesi

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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

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Jobs, Women, Worry

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* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

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Love, Happiness, Stars

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It's useful because it's beautiful.

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Beautiful

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Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.

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Brother, Love Is, Climbing

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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

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Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

"The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Co., (p. 44), 1950.

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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

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Inspirational, Relationship, Smile

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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

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Stars, Lying, Eye

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But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

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Sunshine, Sound, Different

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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

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Lonely, Loneliness, Snakes

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You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

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Beautiful, Thinking, Rose

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.88, eKitap Projesi

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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

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Matter, Indifference, Figures

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

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Freedom, Men, Law

Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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No one is ever satisfied where he is.

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Satisfied

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.91, eKitap Projesi

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I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

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Mean, Boys, Unique

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.85, eKitap Projesi

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Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

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Mean, Ephemeral, Danger

Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

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Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

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Sunset, Quiet, Knows

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The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

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Strong, Loss, Men

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For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

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Memories, Grief, Book

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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

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Science, Intelligent, Hands

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Born: June 29, 1900
Died: July 31, 1944
Occupation: Writer
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