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“As a newly acclaimed author in the literary world, Night Flight, or Vol de nuit, was the first of Saint-Exupéry’s literary works and won him the prix Femina, a French literary prize created in 1904. The novel was based on his experiences as an early mail pilot and the director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline in South America. Antoine is also known for his narrative The Little Prince and his aviation writings, including the lyrical 1939 Wind, Sand and Stars, which is Saint-Exupéry’s 1939 memoir of his experiences as a postal pilot. It tells how on the week following Christmas in 1935, just a year after I was born, he and his mechanic amazingly survived a crash in the Sahara desert. The two men suffered dehydration in the extreme desert heat before a local Bedouin, riding his camel, discovered them “just in the nick of time” to save their lives. His biographies were quite hot for the time and divulged numerous affairs, most notably with the Frenchwoman Hélène de Vogüé, known as “Nelly,” who was referred to as “Madame de B.” Photo Caption: Monument of Saint-Exupéry’s airplane in the Sahara desert. Read these award winning books!”

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Author:Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two"
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“As pessoas grandes aconselharam-me a deixar de lado os desenhos de jiboias abertas ou fechadas e a dedicar-me de preferência à geografia, à história, à matemática, à gramática. Foi assim que abandonei, aos seis anos, uma promissora carreira de pintor. Fora desencorajado pelo insucesso do meu desenho número 1 e do meu desenho número 2. As pessoas grandes não compreendem nada sozinhas, e e´cansativo, para as crianças, ficar toda hora explicando...”

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Book:O Pequeno Principe
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“...pessoas grandes [...] adoram os números. [...] Se dizemos às pessoas grandes: " Vi uma bela casa de tijolos cor-de-rosa, gerânios na janela, pombas no telhado...", elas não conseguem, de modo algum, fazer uma ideia da casa. É preciso dizer-lhes: "Vi uma casa de seiscentos mil reais." Então elas exclamam: "Que beleza!”

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Book:Pequeno Principe , O - Com Aquarelas Do Autor
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