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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spiri

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc

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