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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator

1900–1944

6 quotes.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Terre des hommes (1939), Ch. 3: L’Avion, p. 60.
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands (1948)
- Motivation & Goals
- Time
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Le Petit Prince (1943)
- Children
- Maturity
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.
Terre des Hommes (1939)
- Technology
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
Vol de Nuit (1931) (translated into English as Night Flight)
- Luck
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Pilote de Guerre (1942) (translated into English as Flight to Arras)
- Inspiration

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