Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupérywas a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Princeand for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 June 1900
CityLyon, France
CountryFrance
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.