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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.