"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."
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"You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'"
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"Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?"
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"The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them."
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"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others."
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"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."
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"Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree."
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"I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. 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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"Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake."
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"One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason."
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"The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair."
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"One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man."
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"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
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"The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of."
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"I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?"
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"Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault."
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"The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together."
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"It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself."
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"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."
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"I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child."
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