Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Quote by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in...

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in...

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him...

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is...

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is...

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is...

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but...

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but...

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a...

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a...

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the...

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999...

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999...

If you cannot serve, you cannot rule

If you cannot serve, you cannot rule

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow...

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow...

I was pushed by myself because I have my own rule, and that is that...

I was pushed by myself because I have my own rule, and that is that...