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" We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. "
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Nothing
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" Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. "
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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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" Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. "
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" He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. "
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" True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. "
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" Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. "
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" 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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