It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there … - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Act, Body, Exist, Your Body

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And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure. . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

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True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

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