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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

(1900–1944) · French Writer, poet, journalist and aviator

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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.