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.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Civilization,
Course,
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