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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. - Author object (158)

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected. - Author object (158)

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. - Author object (353)

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them - Author object (353)

'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...' (Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...) - Author object (353)

"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for..." "They don't find it," I answered. "And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." "Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart." - Author object (353)

Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. - Author object (353)

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox - Author object (353)

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. - Author object (353)

"People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose." - Author object (353)

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born. - Author object (353)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Author object (353)

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. - Author object (353)

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers... - Author object (353)

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Author object (353)

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad. - Author object (353)

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. - Author object (353)

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. (Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.) - Author object (353)

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. - Author object (353)

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.) - Author object (353)