"When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never."

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"The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of."

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"Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility."

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"The one thing that matters is the effort."

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"There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question."

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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."

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"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."

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"On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain."

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"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

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"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."

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"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."

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"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

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"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

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"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."

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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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"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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"What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. 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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"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

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"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

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"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

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"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."

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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."

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"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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