French - Novelist | June 29, 1900 - July 31, 1944
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
HappinessManCreativeAdventure
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
PerfectionNothingMoreTakeLeft
The one thing that matters is the effort.
EffortMattersOne ThingThing
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
ManStepYouSameAlwaysTake
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
WisdomYourselfYouMoreGiveThan
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
ChildrenUnderstandNeverAnything
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
MomentImaginationManRockImage
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
HeartSimpleEyeNowSecretSee
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
YouBecomeResponsibleForeverTamed
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ManResponsibleBe A ManPrecisely
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
MenManUnknownOnlyKnownOnce
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
MenUnknownAfraidUpEventCaught
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