Quotes by
Antoin de Saint-Exupéry |
1900-1940 , French writer
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award.He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince, 1943).
Prior to the WW II, Saint-Exupéry had achieved fame in France as an aviator. He disappeared and died while on a reconnaissance mission from Corsica over the Mediterranean on 31 July 1944.
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Quotations
| • | Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? 7 |
| • | Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. 7 |
| • | As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. 7 |
| • | True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. 6 |
| • | For there is but one problem: the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. 5 |
| • | Night, when words fade and things come alive. 4 |
| • | One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love. 4 |
| • | You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. 4 |
| • | Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality. 4 |
| • | Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | What is essential is invisible to the eye. 4 |
| • | War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. 3 |
| • | Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. 3 |
| • | "It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." 3 |
| • | And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells. 3 |
| • | You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. 3 |
| • | It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. 3 |
| • | It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. 3 |
| • | All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. 3 |
| • | Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. 3 |
| • | “What makes the desert beautiful”, said the little prince, “is that it hides, somewhere, a well”. 3 |
| • | It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. 3 |
| • | Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred. 3 |
| • | A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. 3 |
