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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine De SaintExupery
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The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.Antoine De SaintExupery
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.Antoine De SaintExupery
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."Antoine De SaintExupery
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Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.Antoine De SaintExupery
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There is no hope or joy except in human relations.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.Antoine De SaintExupery
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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.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.Antoine De SaintExupery
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine De SaintExupery
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine De SaintExupery
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'Antoine De SaintExupery
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.Antoine De SaintExupery
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.Antoine De SaintExupery
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.Antoine De SaintExupery
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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.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.Antoine De SaintExupery
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.Antoine De SaintExupery
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To be a man is precisely to be responsible.Antoine De SaintExupery
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."Antoine De SaintExupery
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Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.Antoine De SaintExupery
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.Antoine De SaintExupery
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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.Antoine De SaintExupery
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.Antoine De SaintExupery
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.Antoine De SaintExupery
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.Antoine De SaintExupery
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.Antoine De SaintExupery
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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.Antoine De SaintExupery
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.Antoine De SaintExupery
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine De SaintExupery
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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.Antoine De SaintExupery
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.Antoine De SaintExupery
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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.Antoine De SaintExupery
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.Antoine De SaintExupery
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'Antoine De SaintExupery
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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.Antoine De SaintExupery