A biography for Antoine de Saint-Exuperyhasn’t been written yet.
“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
“The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.”
“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.”