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So you, too, come from the sky! Which is your planet?

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Lisbon seemed like a sort of bright, wistful paradise...

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For you live not by things, but by the meaning of things.

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Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

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Real miracles make little noise! Essential events are so simple!

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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

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In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

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How does life construct those lines of force which make us alive?

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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

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What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.

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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious.

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In a civil war the firing line is invisible, it passes through the hearts of men.

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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude toward them.

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If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.

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The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largess of others.

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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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It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

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The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

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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.'

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If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.

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It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.

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Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

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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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