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We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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- Approximate author period: c. 1926 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: documented activity in 1926. Wikidata Q2908, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2908 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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