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
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
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.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
I was too young to know how to love her.
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.