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
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
The essential is invisible to the eyes.
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.