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Antoine de Saint Expuery

Antoine de Saint Expuery (1900-1944), full name Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

- Flight to Arras

  • War is not an adventure. It is a disease.

- Flight to Arras

  • Nighty when words fade and things come alive.

- Flight to Arras

  • The machine does not isolate man from the great problems

of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
- Wind, Sandy and Stars

  • To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

- Wind, Sand, and Stars

  • He who would travel happily must travel light.

- Ibid.

Adlai Ewing Stevension II

Nearby pages
Antoine Francois, Antoine Galland, Antoine Henry Becquerel, Antoine Isaac, Antoine Jean Gros

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