"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
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"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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"You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak."
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"The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit."
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"To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction."
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"Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you."
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"But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise."
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"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
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"But 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."
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"GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain."
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"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."
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"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers."
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"If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."
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""Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.""
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"The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"
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"All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness."
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"If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life."
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"Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."
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"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
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"The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens."
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