What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
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Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
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To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world.
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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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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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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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