Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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