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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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course...

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course...

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says I was beaten, he does...

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says I was beaten, he does...

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...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who...

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who...

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return

There is no hope of joy except in human relations

There is no hope of joy except in human relations

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

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...

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...

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men...

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men...

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.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century...

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century...

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living

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...

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a...

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a...

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.