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“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a French writer, poet, and aviator, renowned for his novella 'The Little Prince,' which has been translated into over 300 languages and remains one of the most beloved books worldwide. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the French Air Force, and his mysterious disappearance over the Mediterranean Sea in 1944 remains unsolved. more

“He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.”

World Opportunity Lines Ability Records Mets Safe Performances Mark Obligation Opera True Life Live Performance Ability To Love Tchaikovsky Rare Opportunities

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“This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

Humans Long Water Human Beings Theory Devices Annoying Amanda

Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”

Ifs Writing Trying Humans Made Enough Jobs Fiction Dust Scorn

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”

People Writing Novel Without Hope

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.”

Knows Needs Motivational Motivation Defining Gumption

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“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

Way Past Religious Likes Devotion Mansfield Park

Book:Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.”