"One only really sees with the heart."
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"Man is, above all, he who creates."
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"In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it."
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"Truths may clash without contradicting each other."
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"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me."
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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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"Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound."
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"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her."
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"It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war."
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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."
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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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"It's useful because it's beautiful."
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"There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?"
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"The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."
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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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"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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"Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?"
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"Only the children know what they are looking for."
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"Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality."
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"The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart."
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