"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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"Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak."
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"True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have."
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"The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it."
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"If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow"
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"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
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"Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity."
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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
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"It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you."
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"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
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"The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
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"Real love begins where nothing is expected in return."
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"On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain."
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"Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!"
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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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"The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried."
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"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly."
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"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."
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