Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

· 1900 - 1944 · 113 kata bijak

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.

Kepemimpinan

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.

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Cinta

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

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Cinta

It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.

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Kepemimpinan

One must command from each what each can preform.

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Kehidupan

But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.

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Keberanian

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

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Keluarga

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....

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Kehidupan

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible...

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Cinta

This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.

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Waktu

When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care.

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Seni

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

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Waktu

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

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Kehidupan

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

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Kreativitas

He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation.

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Kehidupan

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

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Cinta

I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more.

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Nasihat

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.

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Kreativitas

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old.

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Keluarga

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

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Kehidupan

Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.

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