French - Novelist | June 29, 1900 - July 31, 1944
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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.
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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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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.
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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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.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
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