Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above …

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. ✨ Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). Flight to Arras
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