All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothi…

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart. ✨ 'Le Petit Prince' ('The Little Prince'). Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

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