"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."
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"Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life."
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"The only things you learn are the things you tame"
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"And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said."
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"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."
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"Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found."
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"That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups."
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"For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. 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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"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."
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"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."
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"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."
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"You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me."
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"Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."
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"But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."
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"I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent."
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"For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations."
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""It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.""
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"I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset."
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"We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning."
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"We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed."
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