"And that heart which was a wild..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.”
“Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.”
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“If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.”
“The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
More on Individuality
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.”