Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

  

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• We all have a role to play. Don't despair at your own talents... Don't try to be better than anybody else. Just try to be better than yourself.

  

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• Grown ups are certainly very strange.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Strange
  • Grown-Up