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

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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

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'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

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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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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

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When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

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No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

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