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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
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"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

"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."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
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