Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.
("The Little Prince")
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river Yet the river flows on.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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