Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them
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There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations
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