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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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To live is to be slowly born.
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Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
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He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.
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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
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No one is ever satisfied where he is.
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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.
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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
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To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
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Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.
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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
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