Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944), simply known as Saint-Exupery, was a French writer, poet, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France’s highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.
Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery…
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. It is true that a sudden illumination may now and then light up a destiny and impel a man in a new direction. But illumination is vision, suddenly granted the spirit, at the end of a long and gradual preparation. Bit by bit I learnt my grammar. I was taught my syntax. My sentiments were awakened. And now suddenly a poem strikes me in the heart.
Human anguish is the product of the loss by man of his true identity.
Love is not thinking, but being.
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.