Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes From Antoine de Saint-Exupery He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sound tree fall The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches. Antoine de Saint-Exupery fighting mind advice And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said. Antoine de Saint-Exupery yawning important children Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other. Antoine de Saint-Exupery freedom integrity two 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery communication voice men I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me. Antoine de Saint-Exupery flower littles thinking My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la! Antoine de Saint-Exupery distance feet two One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sister sibling brother What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties. Antoine de Saint-Exupery ties doe mean 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery success life death We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery tamed responsible forever Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. Antoine de Saint-Exupery no-friends want men 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 starts. Antoine de Saint-Exupery dragons blue night Man is, above all, he who creates. Antoine de Saint-Exupery men people In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery light feelings order You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. Antoine de Saint-Exupery rose beautiful thinking I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. Antoine de Saint-Exupery pity age children Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. Antoine de Saint-Exupery loneliness earth mind If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen. Antoine de Saint-Exupery businessman sometimes war One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sunset four one-day
