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When the body sinks into death, the essense of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those rel...

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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures

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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.

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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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In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

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Night, the beloved. 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.

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

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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

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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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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

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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 reflection in the glass.

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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.

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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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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.

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'Men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible forever for what you have tamed.'

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You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

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You are beautiful, but you are empty. 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. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

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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.

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

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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

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The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

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

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

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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

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One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

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Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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