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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.
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You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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The only things you learn are the things you tame.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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Only the children know what they are looking for.
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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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I saw the sunset forty-four times!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery