Love does not cause suffering what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite
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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.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river Yet the river flows on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity for where will the stone go, once it is quarried.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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