112 ordspråk av Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry föddes den June 29th 1900 och dog den 31 July 1944 - of 'The Little Prince'.
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 Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

 Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

 Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young

 Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

 For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

 For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

 Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

 He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

 How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on

 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.

 I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things

 I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

 I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

 I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

 I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.


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