Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was 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 Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.

Date of birth:
29th June, 1900
Date of death:
31st July, 1944
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): Happiness
"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): Attitude
"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): War
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): Love
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): Design
"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."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): Respect
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): Life
"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-Exupery
Topic(s): Imagination
"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): God
"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Topic(s): Nature

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