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“A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.”
“You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply.”
“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.”
“Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction.”
“My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.”
“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
“Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot...”
“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his re...”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”
“Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.”
“Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.”
“Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.”
“It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'”
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.”
“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.”
