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

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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Life

Man

Meaning

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".

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Men

Man

Responsibility

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Will

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

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Men

Civilization

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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Nothing

Perfection

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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Man

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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God

Gratitude

Charity

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

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Love

Water

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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Children

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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Being

Man

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