Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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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.
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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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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
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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.
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