(98 quotes found)
“It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“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”
“Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past”
“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”
“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.”
“What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.”
“It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human”
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
“...One loves the sunset when one is sad...”
