"When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?"
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"And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery."
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"Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away."
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"We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet."
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"The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning."
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"Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning."
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"Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations."
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"It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes"
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"Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness."
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"An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on."
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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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"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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"When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile."
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"To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures."
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"Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together."
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"C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful."
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"Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity."
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"I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious."
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"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."
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"So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport."
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