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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer

Lived from: 1900 - 1944

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 29 june 1900 Died: 31 july 1944

  • To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
  • Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
  • A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
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