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Alexander Pope: “A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”)
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something moulded. These prison walls that this age of trade has built up round us, we can break down. We can still run free, call to our comrades, and marvel to hear once more, in response to our call, the pathetic chant of the human voice.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • Wind, Sand And Stars (Harvest Book)
The philosophy of friendship goes further back, to Aristotle. “Without friends no one would choose to live,” he writes in the Nicomachean Ethics, “though he had all other goods.”
If you want to build a ship, don’t gather your people and ask them to provide wood, prepare tools, and assign tasks. Call them together and raise in their minds the longing for the endless sea. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, writer and aviator
Bruce D. Schneider • Energy Leadership
« À quoi bon emprunter sans cesse le même vieux sentier ? Vous devez tracer des sentiers vers l’inconnu. Si je ne suis pas moi, qui le sera? »
Thierry Gillyboeuf • De la marche (La Petite Collection t. 418) (French Edition)
Un soir, il vint lui en lire des passages. Je les vois, les entends tous les deux. Saint-Exupéry, timide, barbu, enveloppé de sa gandourah, s'assied sur le lit de Mermoz. De sa voix sourde, un peu cahotante, mais qui, degré par degré, devient pathétique, incantatoire, il lit son ouvrage de débutant. Mermoz, timide aussi, mais éclatant de beauté
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Bernis, tu m’avouais un jour : « J’ai aimé une vie que je n’ai pas très bien comprise, une vie pas tout à fait fidèle. Je ne sais même pas très bien ce dont j’ai eu besoin : c’était une fringale légère... »
Antoine de Saint Exupéry • Courrier sud (French Edition)
Saint-Exupéry died because he was bound to die. I want to honor his way of living. It shouldn’t matter if one has setbacks, or dies from drink, or dies in an airplane. We all have the right to make that choice, and we should be entitled to it. There’s no need for all of us to live in a healthy way, always being positive. Poets in particular should
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