Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupérywas 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 Princeand for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth29 June 1900
CityLyon, France
CountryFrance
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens.
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. [Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]
We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.