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“No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.”

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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

“Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.”

Ifs Firsts Christianity Support Nice Humour Sick Claims Killing Legs Burning Minorities Packs Being Nice Exes Disputes Neighbour Apollo Heretic Pluto

Author:Tom Holt

“I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.”

Dying Birth Hats Boots Babe Leaves Of Grass

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.”

Way Looks Ends Stories Bigs Brain Mines Eras Life Story

Book:Galapagos: A Novel

Source: Galapagos: A Novel

“I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.”

Ifs Dream Happened

Author:Daniel Handler

“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”

World Want Ends This World

Author:Mary Oliver

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”

Political Certain Politics Winning Known Understood Majority Idiot Voting

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”

Trying Treasure Within You Alchemist Alchemist Love Alchemist Book Personal Legend

Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.”

Firsts States Our Lives Childhood Conditions Appropriate Phases

Book:Theological investigations

Source: Theological investigations

“The best form of saying is doing.”

Form Leadership

Author:Che Guevara

“I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.”

Soul My Own Fire Divine Sparks My Fair Lady

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

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