Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I flew mail planes over the Sahara and Patagonia. What the sky teaches you about being human, no book could tell you. The essential things are invisible.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1939·Paris, France

It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1943·New York, United States

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1942·New York, United States

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1942·New York, United States

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1943·New York, United States

'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1942·New York, United States

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1943·New York, United States

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1939·Paris, France

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1942·New York, United States

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
·1939·Paris, France

The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world, because it is resistant to us.