Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
France
29 Jun 1900 // 31 Jul 1944
Writer / Aviator
29 Jun 1900 // 31 Jul 1944
Writer / Aviator
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself
It is such a secret place, the land of tears
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays