Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
¶ (Attributed)
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) French aviator and writer
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.
¶ (Attributed)
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
¶ (Attributed)
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the workers to gather wood, don't divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
¶ (Attributed)
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
¶ (Attributed)
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
¶ Flight to Arras (1942)
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
¶ Terre des Hommes, Ch. 2, sec. 2, "Wind, Sand and Stars" (1939)
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