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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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„”I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through.” This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man’s place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts.“
„It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.“
„If you wish to build a ship, do not divide the men into teams and send them to the forest to cut wood. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless sea.“
„If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.“
„If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.“
„I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through.“
„Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.“
„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.“
„A goal without a plan is just a wish.“
„Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.“
„Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. These prison walls that this age of trade has built up round us, we can break down. We can still run free, call to our comrades, and marvel to hear once more, in response to our call, the impassioned chant of the human voice.“
„Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings“
„Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.“
„What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.“
„Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.“
„If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.“
„You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers.“
„The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars.“
„It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.“
„Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but—“
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