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I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'one never ought to listen to the flowers. one should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. mine perfumed all my planet. but i did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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I Ought Not To Have Listened To

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'one never ought to listen to the flowers. one should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. mine perfumed all my planet. but i did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.
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