Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no mor…

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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How is it possible for one to own the stars? To whom do they belong? the businessman retorted, peevishly. I don't know. To nobody. ✨ Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). The Little Prince: Illustrated Ed … ▶
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy. ✨ Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). The Little Prince: Illustrated Edition, p.42, eKitap Projesi
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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