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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.
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But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.
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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
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He who must travel happily must travel light.
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One only really sees with the heart.
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When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
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Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.
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