He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..
("The Little Prince")
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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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.
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