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Letter "A" » Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
«The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
hateful, in order, notion, participant, participate, participated, participates, participating, the participants
«When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
finished, great care, just so, planet, toilet, toilets, with great care
«There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
arctic, bind, brim, brimming, brims, cheap, fills, In Search Of, LED, literature, melts, motionless, races, spin, spins, spin out, spun, stir, stranded, strands, The Arctic, The Question, The Strand, wretched
«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»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Body,
Perfection
| Keywords:
attained, nakedness, stripped-down, stripped, take away
«The greatness of a craft consists firstly in how it brings comradeship to men.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
comradeship, craft, crafted, crafts, firstly, The Craft
«When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of hims»
«It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.»
«They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
brothers, butterflies, collect, collects, demand, elder brother, Father, games, His father, sound, weigh, weighing
«The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplices, account, austere, heartless, injustice, innocent, performance, sacrifices, self-discipline, self-disciplined, take account, The Accomplice, The God, the self, victims, vigilance
«More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.»
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