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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. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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" I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. "

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" How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. "

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" Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. "

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