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Language is the source of misunderstandings.
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Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
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To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .
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There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
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The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.
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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
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What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
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"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.
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One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
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True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
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We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
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And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "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..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.
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