"He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy."

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.”
“The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
“Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.”
“For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?”
“Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.”
“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve; he made 'em both a little bit naive.”

Source : "Finian's Rainbow (The Begat)". Book by Yip Harburg and Fred Saidy, 1947.
“Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.”
“I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.”

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