Antoine de Saint-Exupery: He who never says "no" is no true man.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

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It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

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You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

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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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Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

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Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards 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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Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

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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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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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