"Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings."
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"The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart."
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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 does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties."
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"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born."
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"Man is a knot into which relationships are tied."
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"He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound."
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"If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen."
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"You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose."
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"You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets."
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"On ne sait jamais! One never knows!"
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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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"Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth."
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"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."
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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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"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."
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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
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"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
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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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"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other."
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