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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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  • Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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  • The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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