"Nothing can match the treasure of common memories,……" — Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
"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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Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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338 Quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
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Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the…
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
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