Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The profession of witness has always caused me repulsion. What am I if I don't participate? In order to exist, I must take part.

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Defeats strengthen the strong.

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If you refuse to be responsible for defeats, you will not be responsible for victories either.

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Self-love is the opposite of love.

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Tomorrow's truth feeds on yesterday's error, and the contradictions we must overcome are the very fertilizer of our growth.

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What is the point of the political theories that promise us the progress of man, if we do not know in advance what kind of man they will form?

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It's good when something new, something more valuable is born in the dispute between different civilizations, but it's terrible when they swallow each other.

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The human kingdom is within us.

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Why should we hate each other? We are all carried by the same planet, we are like the crew of a ship.

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Man knows himself in the struggle with obstacles.

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Tormenting is not the ugliness of this deformed human clay. But probably a Mozart is killed in each of these people.

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To love is not to look at each other, to love is to both look in one direction.

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He who has lived for a long time in ravishing love and then lost it, sometimes grows weary of his noble loneliness. Returning humbly to life, find happiness in the commonest affection.

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We will be happy only when we understand our role on earth, even if it is an insignificant one.

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If you allow yourself to be domesticated, there will come a day when you will cry.

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Only children know what they are looking for. They give their whole soul to a rag doll and it becomes very dear to them, and if you take away their doll, they cry.

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The truth does not lie on the surface.

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Truth is that which cannot be demonstrated, truth means simplicity.

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From the molten lava, from that dough from which the stars are fashioned, from the miracle that gave birth to the living cell, we humans emerged, and we rose higher and higher, step by step, and here we are writing cantatas and we measure the constellations.

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Only the heart is alert. The most important thing you cannot see with your eyes.

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The earth helps us understand ourselves like no book can. Because the earth is against us.

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The animal retains its elegance even in old age. But why is the noble clay from which man is fashioned so disfigured?

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There is such a firm rule: you woke up in the morning, washed, put yourself in order - immediately put your planet in order.

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All our riches are dust and powder, they cannot give us those things worth living for.

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Each of us feels, some more vaguely, some more clearly, that we must wake up to life. But how many wrong paths appear before us!

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Vocation allows you to free yourself as a human being, but it is necessary for the human being to be able to follow his vocation freely.

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By working only for material goods, we make our own prison.

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We must ask each of them what they can offer us. Power, first of all, must be rational.

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The truth of man is what makes him man.

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Human life is priceless, but we always act as if there is something more valuable.

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Every man has his star.

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You answer forever for all those you have tamed.

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Boredom is longing to see something and you don't even know what it is... This something exists, it is unknown and desired, but it cannot be put into words.

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What gives meaning to life also gives meaning to death.

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You can't suddenly make old friends.

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Escape consists in taking the first step. And one more step. This is where it all starts.

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You achieve perfection not when you have nothing left to add, but when you have nothing left to take away.

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We must guard the lanterns: the gust of wind might blow them out.

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With the death of every man dies an unseen world.

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Words only prevent us from understanding each other.

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There are many people in the world whom no one has brought back to life.

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It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others.

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The greatest luxury in the world is the luxury of communication between people.

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To plant an oak tree is to make ridiculous illusions that you will soon find refuge in its shade.

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To be human means to feel the responsibility of everything you do.

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It may be nice to die to conquer new lands, but modern warfare destroys all the things it was started for.

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In our universe all living things are drawn to those like them, even flowers bend to the wind mingle with each other, a swan knows all others, only humans live in isolation.

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When its fullness is fulfilled, life dries up like the pod that is released from the grain.

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War is not an accident. War is a disease like typhus.

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Don't cause me too much pain if it's not really necessary, and save me from ever causing you pain!

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How little noise real miracles make! How simple the important events are!

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If we say to adults: "I saw a beautiful house, built of pink bricks, geraniums in the window, and pigeons on the roof..." - they will not be able to imagine this house. You must say to them: "I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs." Then they exclaim: "Oh, how beautiful!"

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I had a lot to do with the adults. I could see them up close. And I can't say that my opinion of them has improved.

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Children should be very tolerant of adults.

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Don't hang around here like that. (...) Annoying... You decided to leave. Well go.

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Above all, love is silent attention. To love is to listen.

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New truths are always born in the basements of oppression.

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If I am different from you, I am far from insulting you, rather I am enriching you.

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Being truly loyal means being true to yourself.

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Courage is not in speech. But in the election.

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I don't think much of physical courage; life has taught me what true courage is: resisting the crushing judgments of the environment.

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We find each other in a smile, across languages, castes, and parties.

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Friendship is, above all, a truce, a huge spiritual contact over everyday details.

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For me, passion is a blind monster. Even if noble. Even if it's clean.

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There is someone inside of me that I fight against in order to increase myself.

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You can only live because you accept death.

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To be free, one must first be human.

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A foolish person is one who grinds his teeth on the past, because the past is an immutable block of granite. Accept today as it was given to you, don't beat your head on the unchangeable.

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Only the freedom of the spirit enables the development of thought.

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In every crowd there are people who are not noticed and who are wonderful messengers. They don't even know they are.

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Ideas divide, not explain, the world.

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Happiness is nothing but the warmth of actions, the satisfaction felt over creation.

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The condition for happiness is never the pursuit of happiness. (...) Happiness is given to you as a reward after creative work. And the condition for happiness is struggle, constraint and perseverance.

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I should have judged him by his actions, not his words. She enveloped me with her fragrance, overwhelmed me with her brilliance. (...) I should have felt his tender love behind his poor little tricks. All flowers are full of contradictions. But I was still much younger, I couldn't have loved her.

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What impresses me the most about the sleeping little prince is his loyalty to his flower: the image of a rose that shines in it like the flame of a lamp even when it sleeps... and that made it seem even more fragile to my eyes. You have to be very careful with the lamps: a sudden wind is enough to put them out.

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My flower... I am responsible for it. He's so weak! And so unsuspecting. They have nothing but four little thorns of nothing to protect them from the world.

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There is only one truth for man: that which makes him human.

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I remember my childhood games in the dim, cute garden, which we populated with gods, in the boundless realm that this one square kilometer, completely unknowable, undiscoverable area has become for us. We created a closed civilization, things had a meaning, steps had an echo there that no one else could ever understand. What remains of this great, hot, frozen garden full of childhood shadows when one grows up and lives by different laws? If you return to it now, you pass along the low wall made of gray stones, losing hope, dejected, and you are amazed that the country, which was once your infinity, has fit in such a narrow space; you are amazed, and you know: you will never find your way back to this infinity again, because you should find your way back to the game, not the park.

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The soul also has a homeland: in the realm of the essence of things.

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If you tame it, it would brighten my life. I would hear footsteps that were different from all the other footsteps. The rest of the steps make me want to hide underground. Yours, like some kind of music, lures me out of my hole.

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The missed move serves the successful move. And a successful move shows the jointly sought goal to the one who missed his own.

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Well, yes, I love you (...). Of course, you didn't even guess, but it's my fault. Otherwise, it's not important. But you were just as stupid as I was. Try to be happy.

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A freezing feeling of irreparability ripped through me. (...) I felt unbearable even the mere thought of not hearing her laugh anymore. After all, it was like a spring in the desert to me.

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You can pay with a smile. You can compensate with a smile. You can give life with a smile. And there is a smile to die for.

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When you're really, really sad, you love sunsets.

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Understanding does not mean breaking down into parts, not explaining. But vision.

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I have to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know butterflies.

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Speech is only a source of misunderstanding. But every blessed day you can sit a little closer.

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You only really get to know what you tame.

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A person discovers himself when he faces an obstacle.

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I was scattered and unhappy: gather me together!

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a pile of rocks as soon as even a single person sees it as a cathedral.

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You are beautiful, but empty. Can't die for you. Of course, any passerby could say that my rose is the same as yours. Although the truth is that he alone is worth more than all of you, because he is the one I watered. Because he's the one I put a mask on. Because he's the one I protected behind a windshield. Because I killed the caterpillars on it (except those two or three, because of the butterflies). Because I heard him complain and brag, and sometimes even listen. Because she is my rose.

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There is no situation in life that awakens a completely unknown stranger in us. Life is a slow birth.

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We quickly find friends to help us. But we only slowly earn those who ask for our help.

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Save me from the naive belief that everything in life should go smoothly! Give me the gift of the sober realization that difficulties, failures, failures, setbacks are the natural additions of life, through which we grow and mature!

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After you tidy yourself up in the morning, you must also tidy up your planet.

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Whoever lets them be tamed also runs the risk of crying.

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Perfection is not that which has nothing to add, but that which has nothing to take away.

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Adults don't understand anything on their own, and children get tired of having to explain things to them forever and ever.

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I don't know (...) whether the stars are illuminated so that one day everyone can find their own.

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The stars do not mean the same thing to people. The stars guide those who walk the road. For others, they are nothing more than tiny little lights. Still others, problems for scientists. In the eyes of my businessman, they were made of gold. But the stars are all silent. But you will have stars like no other. (...) Because I will live on one of them, and I will laugh on one of them: if you look up at the sky at night, it will be as if all the stars are laughing. You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! (...) And when you are comforted (because people are always comforted after all), you will be glad that you got to know me. You will always be my friend.

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See that field of wheat over there? I don't eat bread. I have no need for wheat. I can't think of anything about a wheat field. Do you know how sad that is? But you have such beautiful golden hair. If you can tame it, how great it would be! Then I could think of you about the cute wheat. And how I would like the rustling of the wind in the wheat...

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It is much more difficult to judge ourselves than others. If you manage to judge yourself correctly, it is a sign that you are truly wise.

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People don't get to know anything. They buy all ready-made things from dealers. But since there are no friendly merchants, people have no friends.

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We expect the researcher to provide evidence. For example, when it comes to exploring a large mountain, we expect him to bring large stones with him.

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The time you wasted on your rose: that's what makes your rose so important.

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Man is created in such a way that he can only enjoy what he creates. And in order to enjoy it, you must first climb the steepness of the poem.

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Loving doesn't mean looking into each other's eyes, it means looking in the same direction together.

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If you want to build a ship, perhaps the most important thing is not to gather the engineers and ship carpenters, but to awaken the desire for infinity.

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One can only see well with the heart. What is really important is invisible to the eye.

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You have once and for all become responsible for what you have tamed.

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It would have been better if you came at the same time (...). If, for example, you will arrive at four in the afternoon, I will start to rejoice at three. The more time goes on, the happier I will be. At four o'clock I will be full of excitement and anxiety; I discover what a precious treasure happiness is. But if you just come, whenever you come, I'll never know how many hours I can decorate my heart.

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At the moment, you are nothing more than a little boy to me, like hundreds and hundreds of thousands of others. And I don't need you either. Neither do you for me. To you, I'm just the same fox as the other hundreds and hundreds of thousands. But if you tame it, we'll need each other. You will be the only one in the world for me. And I will be the only one for you...

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Being human means being responsible. (...) To feel that with the stone he lays down, he continues to build the world.

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If someone loves a flower that exists only in one instance among the millions of stars: that is enough for him to be happy when he looks at the stars.

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You don't tell yourself the truth, others tell us.

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What makes the desert beautiful (...) is that it hides a well somewhere.

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Sometimes a change of perspective is enough to see clearly.

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I didn't know how to approach him, how to find communion with him... The land of tears is such a mysterious world.

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Man knocks down the walls to be free, but then it is nothing more than a destroyed fortress, which is open to all landscapes. And anxiety begins, the awareness that we are not.

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If you love, you see more of the world, and the more you see, the more you love.

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Perhaps the greatness of a profession primarily lies in the fact that it unites people; there is only one true luxury: that of human relationships.

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He who is above all in love with the expectation of love will never know the encounter.

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I found it the way a person finds the meaning of things, and I walk by it in such a way that I finally discover the inner world.

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True love is not wasted. The more you give, the more you keep. If you go to a real spring for water, the more you draw, the more it gushes.

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When we are away, we fantasize. When we leave, we leave behind our tender affections with aching hearts, but also with the strange feeling that we have buried a treasure under the ground.

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Self-extending love is ordinary love. He who loves, contemplates his god in silence and communicates with him in silence.

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Don't give me what I want, give me what I need!

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When a new variety of rose is successfully cultivated in a garden, gardeners are overcome with excitement. The rose is isolated, cared for and nurtured. But people don't have gardeners. The child-Mozart gets into the cogs just like the others.

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Dying (...) is nothing but a balancing act of self-consciousness, sometimes filled and sometimes emptied by the alternating ebbs and flows of memory. The flood of memories swells up and then fades away, bringing back like so many seashells, the way it took in a moment before, the stored images, the humming triton horns of the sounds you once heard. It breaks to the surface, again flooding the dried seaweed of the heart with water, which invigorates all tender emotions. But the equinox is already making a final ebb, the heart is emptied, the tide and everything it carried turns to God.

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"With you," said the little prince, "people grow five thousand roses in a single garden." They still can't find what they're looking for. "They won't find him," I said. - But they could find it in a single rose or a sip of water... - Certainly - I answered. "But the eye is blind," added the little prince. - We have to search with our hearts.

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You know what the wedding reception is like after the guests and the couple have left. The twilight of the morning brings to light the mess left behind. The broken stoneware, the thrown tables, the dead embers all preserve the traces of a swirling maelstrom frozen into immobility. But no matter how hard you try to read these clues, my father said, you won't learn anything about love from them.

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If we regret, we are still two; pity is still division. But relationships have a height where gratitude and pity no longer make sense. Here, one breathes like a freed prisoner.

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At night you will look up at the stars. Mine is much smaller, I can't even show you where it is. But it's better that way. For you, my star will be one among the other stars. So you will be happy to look at all the stars... They will all be your friends.

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We do not strive to be eternal, but to ensure that things and actions do not immediately lose their meaning for us. Then the nothingness that surrounds us is revealed.

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Defeat... Victory... I don't really know what to do with these expressions. There is an exhilarating victory and there is a humiliating victory. There is a killer defeat and there is a defeat that wakes us up.

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At first, all grown-ups were children. (But few remember it.)

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Water! You have no taste, no color, no flavor, you cannot be defined, they taste you without knowing you. You are not necessary in life: you are life itself.

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A friend is someone I can listen to, in other words, I don't have to be afraid of my inner gardens, mountains, gullies and deserts because he won't step into them.

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We do not reach perfection when we have nothing left to add, but when we have nothing left to leave.

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Your real values ​​are not objects that have value when you use them, like your donkey when you sit on it, or your dishes when you eat from them, but when you put them away, they no longer have meaning.

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Love begins where there are no more gifts to count on.

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Love is a desirable thing, the spicy smell of the house, the singing of the fountain, the soft clinking of silver jugs, the blessing of children on the house as they come one after the other with the silence of the evening in their eyes. But don't try to distinguish between the brilliant triumphs of the soldier fighting in the desert and the happiness won by love, according to the usual patterns. Because only the words make a difference between them.

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Expression is a difficult, slow, tortuous operation - and the mistake consists precisely in believing that what cannot be expressed in words does not exist.

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To create means to set the other where he sees the world as we wish, not to offer him a new world.

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I don't believe in the science of counting. Neither worry nor joy can be multiplied. And if only one member of my people suffers, his suffering is as great as that of the whole people.

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I don't care how happy a person feels. I'm interested in the extent to which he is human. The most important thing for me is not whether a person will be happy, but what kind of person will be happy.

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There is no doubt that lovers suffer from the horrors of childbirth. But when the horror is over, the time of celebration comes.

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Slave rebellions can only be built on slavery. Strictness is of no use if there is no willingness to repent.

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Whoever builds a home for himself gives shape to his own home. It is true that all forms can be desirable, but not all together. Otherwise he wouldn't be home anymore.

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True love begins where you no longer expect anything in return.

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It is a bad thing when the heart triumphs over the soul. When emotion wins over spirit.

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Work forces you to accept and make the world your own. He who plows, hits stones, is afraid of rain, or wishes for rain, and thereby lives in the world, expands and becomes brighter. Each step echoes.

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Who is watching your child grow up at the present moment? No one. Strangers say, "How much he has grown!" However, the mother or father did not see their child grow up. The child was born in time. And every moment was what it was meant to be.

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Only by listening does the truth take hold and take root. Because time is more important than anything else, just like with breastfeeding.

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Your big mistake is that you believe in the duration of human life. Because the important thing is: who or what does a person pass on to when he dies?

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Courage does not mean that you give uccu, beatings to those who represent different truths than you.

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There is no isolated individual in the world. Anyone who fences himself in is insulting a community. Someone who is sad makes others sad.

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Building love must begin with sacrifice.

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The poet who sings about the intoxication of poetry day and night is lying. But even if your stomach hurts a little, you'll be whistling at every poem.

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If I want to judge what a road, a ceremony or a poem is like, I look at the person who comes from there. Or I listen to his heart beat.

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People (...) believe that they are acting out of interest or their logical thinking, and they do not know that logic, the search for happiness or interest varies in form and direction from country to country.

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I can achieve great results by lying. But when I use it, I dull the edge of my weapon. And even if I outwit my enemy at first, the hour will come when I will stand before him unarmed.

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Happiness is felt in oneself like a fruit full of flavor.

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Neither wealth nor victory is an eternal condition that comes to man like fodder to animals.

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You can't follow your nose for long.

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Apart from man, nothing is clear or obscure, incoherent or connected, complicated or simple. Quite simply, everything is there.

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To create is to create life, and every creation is something that cannot be expressed in words.

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In your freedom, you bump into your neighbor, and he into you.

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Just as freedom is not freedom, order is not a lack of freedom.

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Giving means building a bridge over the chasm of your loneliness.

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Adults (...) like numbers. When we talk to them about a new friend, they never ask about the important things. They never ask, "How does your voice sound?" "What are your favorite toys?" "Do you collect butterflies?" Instead, they ask, "How old are you?" "How many siblings do you have?" "How many kilos?" "How much does your dad earn?" And only after that do they think they know.

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Never look back, remember that in the most amazing legends, whoever looks back turns into an idol of stone or salt.

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Error is not the opposite of truth at all, but merely a different arrangement of the same stones, built from the same stones, neither truer nor falser, just a different church.

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Only that part of your life is important, only that part that can give birth to real works, which accepts you from everything, which commits you to hunger and thirst, the bread of your children and the truth served or denied to you. Otherwise, there is nothing but a game, a distorted life, a distorted culture.

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If we believe that the machine degrades man, we believe it because perhaps we do not have enough perspective to judge such rapid transformations as we have gone through. What is the two hundred year history of the machine compared to the two thousand year history of man! Actually, we have not yet settled in this electrified landscape, in this new house, which has not yet been completely built. Everything around us changed rapidly: human relationships, job opportunities, habits. In fact, our psychology was fundamentally shaken. The concept of departure, absence, distance, return, even if the words have not changed, no longer covers the old content. To grasp today's world, we use language made for yesterday's world. And it seems: the life of the past suits our nature better, just because it suits our language better.

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We should not perceive the passing time as something that wears away and is lost, we should not see it as a handful of sand, but something in which we are fulfilled!

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The painful longing of love is love itself.

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You imagine that you derive your happiness from judging, and panting, you pile stones on top of each other, which could have been the stones of a basilica elsewhere, and you consider this a prerequisite for your happiness. After all, even a single stone makes the other's heart and soul go wild if he models the face of his god on it.

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You have no idea what the joy is when you believe that the tree lives for the tree it is, within its own bark. The tree is the source of winged seeds, it is transformed and beautified from generation to generation. It moves, but not as you, but as the fire spreads according to the whim of the winds.

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To give culture as a gift (...) means that you give thirst as a gift.

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The desire for love is love. Because you cannot desire what has not yet been conceived in you.

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I love the songs of the nail-smiths and the plank-sawers, for they do not glorify the finished, which has no substance, but the ascent towards the ship.

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Water is nothing if you don't know what its absence means. And it's not life if you're not dying of thirst.

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You are unfair to everyday life when you are preparing for a holiday, but the upcoming holiday makes everyday life balmy, and you are richer for the existence of a holiday.

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If I awaken something uplifting in you, you will pass it on from generation to generation.

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There is no hope if you are blind to the light that comes not from things, but from the meaning of things.

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The earth teaches us more deeply about ourselves than all the books: because it resists us. A person discovers himself when he faces an obstacle.

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Life is nothing but a slow birth. It would be too easy to get a ready soul.

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True love begins only when we cannot expect love in return.

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If we work only for material goods, we build our prison around ourselves. We shut ourselves up, lonely, with our money, which is worthless than ashes, and which offers nothing worth living for.

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The more the machine is perfected, the more it fades away from its role. All the efforts of the industry, all the calculations of the man, the night spent watching over blueprints, as a visible sign - it seems - have only one result: simplicity.

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Anyone who stands in front of me and wants to grasp it with his words, tries to express the person in a logical presentation, in my eyes is similar to the child who, settling at the foot of Atlas, wants to carry away the mountain with a bucket and a shovel. Man is what he is, not what words express.

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You will never know the feelings of a flower that throws all its seeds to the wind, although it never gets them back. You will never know the generosity of a tree that gives its fruits, even though it will never get them back. You will never know the jubilant joy of a man who parted with his work forever. You will never know how the dancer feels when she gives you that dance that you can never give her back. So is the soldier who gives his life.

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There is no doubt that it is wrong for a man to oppress his flock. But don't expect to discover real slavery in this: real slavery is when the herd tramples the man.

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In the world, where life is so close to life, where a flower falls on a flower on the lap of the wind, and a swan is familiar to all swans - only man builds his loneliness.

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The mother did not only pass on life: she also taught her sons a language, she entrusted them with the treasure slowly accumulated over the centuries, the spiritual heritage, which she also only entrusted, this legacy of traditions, concepts, myths, in which all the differences live , which is between Newton or Shakespeare and the barbarians of the caves.

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We come from flowing lava, from glittering pulp, from a living cell that miraculously conceives, and we grow slowly until finally we write cantatas and measure the orbits of milky ways.

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Why do we hate each other? We belong together, we live on the same planet, we are passengers on the same ship. And even if it is necessary for civilizations to confront each other in order to promote the development of new syntheses: it is horrible that they mutually devour each other.

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People can also be encouraged by dressing them in uniforms. Then they sing battle songs and eat from a common bowl. They find what they are looking for: the taste of universality. However, the bread, which thus comes to them as a class share, kills them.

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What good is arguing about ideologies? If we explain all of them, they all come into conflict with each other.

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They think: man is free... they do not see the chain that binds him to the wells and ties him to the womb of the earth like an umbilical cord. If it goes one step further - it will perish.

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Anyone who thinks that the essence of education is memorizing formulas has a poor idea of ​​literacy. A low-achieving high school student knows more about the laws of nature than Descartes or Pascal. But is it capable of the same soaring of the spirit?

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There are miracles that are better to hear about. Otherwise, you will no longer understand anything.

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Nothing can ever replace a missing comrade. Old comrades do not come easily. What can be compared to the treasure of shared memories, difficult hours experienced together, arguments, reconciliations and emotions!

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That's how life goes. At first we get rich, we sow for years, then years come when time destroys this work. He leaves me in the shadow of his comrades. And a strange sadness slowly mixes with our grief: we are getting old.

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The wall of a home garden can contain more secrets than the Chinese wall, and silence protects the soul of a young girl more faithfully than the endless sands of the oases of the Sahara.

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If you want to build a ship, don't start by collecting wood with the workers, then hand out the tools to them without saying a word and point to the blueprint. Instead, first arouse in them the unquenchable desire for the endless sea!

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We will only be happy if all of us, even the smallest among us, realize our role. Only then will we be able to live in peace and die in peace; because what gives meaning to life also gives meaning to death.

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He who is vain hears only praise and nothing else.

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I will take you on a walk where our steps follow each other in order, I will put you on the top of the mountain, from where all your controversial questions will be resolved, and I will let you filter your own truth from this.

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You actually only go through the school of love during the breaks of love.

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Perhaps the love felt through the walls of the prison is the real, the great love. Prayer is fruitful until God answers it. Sharp stones and thorn bushes feed love.

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The zeal of the tree is transferred to the fruit, which in turn offers nothing in return.

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If your love collides with the absolute impossibility of things, for example, a cluster stream or an impenetrable wall of rejection stares in front of you, thank God that you have chosen love in return, even though it is apparently mute and blind. Because there is a candle lit by him in the world for you. And it doesn't matter that you can't use it. Because he who dies like this in the desert is rich, because he has a house somewhere far away, even though he has to die.

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I only love what resists me. (...) I love the one who shuts himself up and listens, who endures hard and with pursed lips, who is not broken by either kiss or love.

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I hate easy access. And he is not a man who does not resist. At most, it is an anthill, in which there is no longer God. An unleavened man.

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Disappointment is miserliness. It's nothing more than low-mindedness, I think why would you stop what you used to like in someone if you discover something in them that you don't like? But you immediately turn the one you love, or the one who loves you, into your slave, and then, if he refuses to bear the burden of this slavery, you condemn him.

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You will have to overcome many reproaches. (...) According to people, wherever we give anything, we steal it from somewhere else.

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Never mistake love for the rapture of possession, from which the greatest sufferings come upon you. Because contrary to popular belief, love does not cause suffering at all. What torments me is the instinct of possession, and that is the opposite of love.

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I can recognize someone who really loves me by not being hurt.

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I recognize friendship by the fact that it cannot be disappointed, and true love by the fact that it cannot be offended.

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I can fight in the name of my own path against the path that another has chosen. I can criticize the way it works. The movements of the intellect are uncertain. Still, I have to respect this man spiritually if he is struggling towards the same star.

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The future is never anything but the present waiting to be arranged. You don't have to foresee, you have to suffer.

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I call him my friend, the one I saw in him, who may be deeply hidden and slumbering embedded in his self, but in front of me he slowly unfolds because he recognizes me and smiles at me, even if he is forced to betray me later.

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If something is very impressively mysterious, one dare not disobey.

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To admire means to admit that the person is the most beautiful, the best dressed, the richest and the smartest on this wide planet.

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Nothing in the world is as vulnerable as hope.

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- Here in the desert, you are so alone. - He is no less alone among people.

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Only children know what they are looking for. (...) They waste time on a rag doll, which makes that rag doll very important at the same time, and when it is lost from them, they cry...

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There comes a moment when his name alone is prayer enough, because there is nothing more you can add.

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I know that many problems are solved by doing nothing. Please help me wait!

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Whether it's a house, the stars, or the desert: what makes them beautiful is invisible.

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Life only makes sense if you slowly exchange it for something. The death of the gardener does not harm the tree. But if you threaten the tree, the gardener dies doubly.

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Expect nothing from him who works for his own life and not for eternal life.

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If you let the cockroaches multiply, (...) then the rights of the cockroaches are born. Which, of course, are beyond doubt. Then their singers come up and praise them before you. They sing about how poignant the fate of the cockroach, threatened with destruction, is.

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Whoever humiliates others, (...) is also inferior himself.

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If you want them to be brothers, force them to build a tower. But if you want them to hate each other, throw food in front of them.

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When people hate you, don't listen to the stupid list of reasons why they hate you. (...) They built their hatred like a temple, from the same stones from which they could have built love.

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Virtue is first and foremost a consequence. The deterioration of my people is above all the deterioration of the country that realizes people.

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The adolescent child, who no longer knows what to do with his mother, will not find peace until he finds the woman. Only the woman will be able to put him back together as a human.

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You won, so I became even stronger.

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If I call the king a donkey: I have made my listeners laugh with this as long as the king deserves respect and is respected. But then a day comes when the king identifies with the donkey. And from now on, I'm just stating the obvious.

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Contempt is born in the mind of the inferior man, because his truth excludes all other truths. However, we knew that the truths fit together, so it never occurred to us that we would degrade ourselves if we acknowledged the other's truth, even though ours was a mistake. As far as I know, the apple tree does not look down on the vine, nor the palm tree on the cedar.

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People claim to be sane, skeptical, and ironic, when irony is not a real human trait, but a tunya spirit. Because love is not given to you as a gift by some face, just as the serenity of the soul does not come from the sight of the landscape, but from the successful undertaking of a mountain climber.

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What you give to the holiday before the holiday enriches you more than what the holiday will be able to give you once.

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Forget the vain mincing of words and see: if there is a chasm in his way, he goes around the chasm, if a rock stands in front of him, he avoids it, if the sand is too fine, brittle, he looks elsewhere for something more solid, and then always returns in the same direction. If the hard membrane of the salt marsh breaks under his muddy carts, you can see him whirling and turning, freeing his animals from the hole, groping for the solid ground, but then soon returning in good order again in the original direction. If one of the load-carrying animals collapses, they stop, pick up the broken crates, transfer them to another animal, tighten the knot on the creaking rope so that they don't slip, and then continue on the same road. It happens that the person who guided them dies. They flock around him. They are buried in the sand. They argue. Then they find another one, make it their leader, and start again, after the same star. Thus, the caravan, like a heavy stone on an invisible slope, necessarily moves in a direction that is the master of its will.

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The past is irreparable, but the present is for you like all kinds of building materials lying at the builder's feet: it is your job to build a future out of it.

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People are only afraid of the unknown. But he is no longer unknown to those who oppose him.

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Above all, action is important, because goals are only apparent, arbitrary stops, and you don't even know where you're going. (...) You can't know anything about the individual stations in advance, they only exist in words. Only the direction matters. The important thing is to move towards something, not to arrive, because we never arrive anywhere, except in our death.

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You love because you love. Love has no right.

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What is the distance? I know very well that what really affects a person can never be measured or calculated. The real distance has nothing to do with our eyes: only the soul can perceive it. Its value lies in the value of language, because language connects things.

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Everyone should be required to do what they can do. The very first basis of authority is reason (...). If you command your people to throw themselves into the sea: they will rebel, make a revolution. I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable.

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All I see is the crust. Most importantly, it is invisible.

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A person shouts so loudly because his language is insufficient, so he wants to suppress the words of others.

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Man is not the sum of individual parts, but something indivisible, a ruling unity.

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Love is essentially the thirst for love.

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Man is created in such a way that he cannot live alone. You need him to settle on his surroundings with his inventions.

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The saint is lying who claims to be immersed in God's vision day and night. Sometimes God withdraws from him like the sea. And the saint gets drier than the pebble beach.

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In order for the light to be beautiful, you need to know what you are lighting.

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Loving me means cooperating with me.

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I need someone who is a window opening to the sea, not a mirror that only shows me forever.

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I know that wisdom is not an answer, but a healing from ever-changing words, from those who love each other, who sit with their legs dangling, snuggled together on the low stone fence of the orange grove, and they know very well that they will not get answers to the questions they asked yesterday. However, I know love, and therefore I know that it means: the questioning ceases.

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Your friends are bound to get bored of you. They go to other houses, there they complain about you. But then, when they've complained, they come back because they've forgiven you, and they love you all over again, ready to even risk their lives for yours. But if you find out from a third party (who unexpectedly tells you back what wasn't meant for you) that you've had enough of you, which is therefore independent of you, it results in you throwing away those who love you and who now come back to you, because they love again.

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Something always remains of lies, because it offered a perspective from which truths that really exist can be discovered.

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When I say that the plague is spread by hunchbacks, you will be horrified to see how many hunchbacks there are. Because you haven't noticed them until now. And the longer you believe me, the more you will recognize them. The result will be that you know how many there are. And that's what I wanted to achieve.

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Love is the process of bringing you back to yourself.

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You need a perfect expression of your desire, that you do not run into impossible obstacles, but into the obstacle of life itself, the other dancer, your competitor - then the dance can begin. Otherwise, you are as stupid as someone who plays against himself.

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You made a mistake not because you gave more, but because you wanted less. If you give more, you can demand more.

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A friend is that part of a person that is there for you and opens a door for you that may never be opened anywhere else.

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Lord, I'm not asking for miracles and visions, I'm just asking for strength for everyday life.

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How easily you quench your thirst in your sleep, your steps bring the water to you like your well-trained slaves, no thorn bushes stand in your way to hold you back.

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You are wrong to think that you can connect with things and grasp them, desire them, renounce them, and hope, smash and scatter, conquer and possess them. For you will not take and keep, you will not possess and lose, you will not find again, you will not hope and wish for anything but the light that their sun lent them.

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You can't get anything from the unattainable one you only desire with your senses, and it makes your sleepless nights bitter, just as your hungry dog ​​doesn't get anything from the image of meat.

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If they accept your love, if arms are extended to you, then pray to God to preserve this love from corruption, for I was afraid of too happy hearts.

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Not the miser who does not ruin himself by giving gifts, but the one who does not give in exchange the brightness of his own face for your donation.

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It is not love that is born slowly, because love is the discovery of the bread for which I have taught you to hunger.

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If you want to understand people, never start by listening to them!