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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900-1944. French writer and poet, best known for book "Le Petit Prince".

1. "You do not inherit the earth of your ancestors, you borrow it from your children."

categories: Nature and Animals

2. "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

source: "Le Petit Prince"

categories: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Nature and Animals

3. "War is not a true adventure. It is a mere ersatz. Where ties are established, where problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

source: "Flight to Arras"

categories: Peace and War -:- Good and Evil

4. "True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have."

categories: Love

5. "There is no hope of joy except in human relations."

categories: Human -:- Joy and Sadness

6. "The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. "

source: "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

7. "The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart."

source: "Le Petit Prince"

categories: Various

8. "The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."

source: "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

categories: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology

9. "Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

categories: Various

10. "Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."

source: "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

categories: Various

11. "Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."

source: "Flight to Arras"

categories: Patriotism

12. "Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

categories: Love

13. "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction."

source: "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

categories: Love

14. "It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."

categories: Human

15. "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

source: "The Little Prince"

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Youth and Age

16. "As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it."

categories: Time and Passing

17. "A goal without a plan is just a wish."

categories: Dreams and Desires


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