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There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

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Memories, Treasure, Equal

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

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Sky, Looks, Mystery

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind

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Law Of Attraction, Giving, Secret

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

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Guides, Practicals, Practical Experience

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

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Truth, May, Contradicting

If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow

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Friendship, Unique, Shine On
"Fictional character: The Fox". "The Little Prince", www.imdb.com. 2015.

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

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Risk, Tears, Ifs

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.

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Men, No Friends, Want
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

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Winning, Sky, Tree

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

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Cutting, Sea, People

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

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Flower, Love You, Faults

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

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Men, Sea, Want

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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Soul, Events, Would Be
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

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Math, Religion, Democracy
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

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Atheism, Identity, Principles

One only really sees with the heart.

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Heart

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

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Messages, Bears, Crowds

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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Children, Forever, Understanding
Le Petit Prince ch. 1 (1943)

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

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Life, Purpose, Ifs

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

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Mean, Ties, Doe

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

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Stars, Crazy, Grief

On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

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Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

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Loses, Eternal, Asks

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

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Mean

Man is, above all, he who creates.

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Men, People

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