antoine de saint exupery quotes wind sand and stars

Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere. ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY, Wind, Sand, and Stars. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as a man. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares.

I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. That other one shows the direction of a white city of the South, which seems as delicious as a. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. And the sand between you and the oasis is a lawn in a fairy tale. Antoine de Saint-Exupry, Wind, Sand and Stars 275 likes Like Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.

Antoine de saint exupery quotes wind sand and stars