Flight to Arras
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“C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.”
Source: The Little Prince
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“Night, when words fade and things come alive.”
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“Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.”
“And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.”
“I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.”
“Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.”
“The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.”
“The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.”
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“You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.”
“Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.”
“To live is to be slowly born.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.”
“If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
“You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.”
“To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.”
“Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.”
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”