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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
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"I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?""It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...."

"To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world."

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."

"Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

"This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present."

"It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you."

"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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