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
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There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.
He who never says "no" is no true man.
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
The essential is invisible to the eyes.
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?
Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.