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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry says his favorite thing in life is sleep, and he compares life to a slow birth. He observes that love is not just staring at each other but sharing the same direction. He also reminds us that life can feel like a dream that we should try to make real.

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

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“The real miracles make no noise. The crucial events in a life are unobtrusive.”

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The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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“for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.”

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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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“I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. she perfumed my planet and lit up my life.”

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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher…

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“But one never knows where to find them. The wind drives them hither and thither. You see, they have no roots, which…

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“I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my…

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

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“Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life…

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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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“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece. “Tell me,” I said…

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“In those days I understood nothing! I should have judged her by her deeds and not her words. She cast her fragrance…

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that…

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My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all…

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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and…

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To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life…

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“And he told me: ‘I got it all wrong! I should have judged her by her actions, not her words. She filled…

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“Men set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush…

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I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at…

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“How does life build the vital currents that we live from? Where does the magnetic force that pulls me toward this friend's…

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…if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you,…

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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out…

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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I…

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“Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all…

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“Farewell, eyes that I loved! Do not blame me if the human body cannot go three days without water. I should never…

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“Good morning," said the little prince. Good morning," said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented…

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“But he came back to his idea. "My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All…

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“I have nothing to complain of. For three days I have tramped the desert, have known the pangs of thirst, have followed…

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“The real miracles make no noise. The crucial events in a life are unobstrusive.”

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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

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“The one thing I love in life is to sleep.”

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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

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“Let your life be a dream, and dream be a reality”

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“But, of course, for those of us who understand life, we would not care less about figures.”

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“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.”

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“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you”

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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

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