"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

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"Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter."

"They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold."

"Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon."

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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

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"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"The one thing that matters is the effort."

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

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