“Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”
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Famous Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
“Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.”
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.”
“When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“One must observe the proper rites.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.”
“Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.”
Source: The Little Prince:
“The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.”
Source: Flight to Arras
“To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.”
“Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.”
“What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?”
Source: Flight to Arras