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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes: Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
         

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


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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.



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



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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.



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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.



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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.



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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.



I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.





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