"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 [...]" (Antoine de Saint Exupéry, "Wind, Sand and Stars", 1939)
"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand, and Stars", 1939)
"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Flight to Arras", 1942)
"Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Flight to Arras", 1942)
"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Flight to Arras", 1942)
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince", 1943)
"The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince", 1943)
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude toward them." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wisdom of the Sands", 1948)
"Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wisdom of the Sands", 1948)
"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 single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"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."(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands."(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"There is no hope or joy except in human relations." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"You become responsible forever for what you have tamed." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"You give birth to that on which you fix your mind." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
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