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The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.
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Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
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Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.
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When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
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It's useful because it's beautiful.
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True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
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If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
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It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
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If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
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Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
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I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
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C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery