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On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.
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It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
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You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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