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“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters--“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”--offer inspirational and thought-provoking words about the subjects held most dear by the author. A perfect gift for graduates—or for anyone who wants gentle guidance.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY (1900-1944) was born in Lyons, France. He took his first flight at the age of eleven and became a pilot at twenty-six. A pioneer of commercial aviation, he flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His internationally celebrated writings include The Little Prince; Wind, Sand and Stars; Night Flight; Southern Mail; and Airman’s Odyssey.
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"IF SOMEONE loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars." Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
i don't think i can rate this book by words - because its perfect eloquence cannot be described in words!
just thought 'wow' - what a talented writer - love to read more books from antoine.
just thought 'wow' - what a talented writer - love to read more books from antoine.
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96 of 96 people found the following review helpful
Essential Wisdom is Right
9 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover
Let it be understood that this is a coffee table/bathroom type book. The kind of book you pick up and select a few pages and read and meditate on what it is you have just read. Perhaps you share it with a friend and get engrossed in a discussion after reading only a page or two. I suppose you could read it from cover to cover, and although you would be finished quickly I think you would be missing the point of encapsulating the brunt of a prolific writer's works into 96 pages each with only one or two sentences on them. The idea is to revisit the world of Antione de Saint-Exupery and linger a little bit longer than you did the first time you read his works.
If you are familiar with the works of Antoine De Saint-Exupery, you will probably recognize just what part of each story the quotes are taken from. You will also instantly recall the magical way in which Saint-Exupery was able to reveal the his subtle wisdom in regards to happiness, friendhsip, love, grief, etc. in a way that was accessible to children, but still profound to the most discerning adult. If you are only familiar with The Little Prince, than perhaps this little guide will do a lot to bring you up to speed on Saint-Exupery's entire body of everyday philosophy.
I doubt that anyone who has never heard of Saint-Exupery or any of his stories will appreciate this book much. The magic of Saint-Exupery has to be experienced before one learns how to detect the depth of his thoughts in these short quotations. As a gift this book is still an excellent idea, but perhaps it should be given in conjunction with at least one other Saint-Exupery book, if the recipient is completely new to Saint Exupery.
I will serenely conclude here before I start taking my opinion too seriously.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Just good common sense
16 April 2002
Format:Hardcover
Lovely quotations regarding Love, Friendship etc. that make you feel all warm and cozy. Makes you want to pick up and read Wind, Sand, Stars and The Little Prince all over again and also look up at the stars once again with new feeling.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Exupery's Essential Wisdom Distilled For a Quick Drink
8 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover
This is an extremely short read. It took me 10 minutes, and I am a slow reader. The quotes have been pulled from Exupery's seven works. I am not crazy about Exupery's storytelling such as The Little Prince, but I can tell that he was a deep and caring thinker. Every now and then one of his observations is so artistically succinct and beautifully rendered that it bears restatement.
Here are my favorite quotes from this book:
"People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in the stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends."
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"People have forgotten this truth... But you musn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed."
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
"The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then a dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."
"What ought we be? That is the essential question, the question that concerns spirit and not intelligence. For spirit impregnates intelligence with the creation that is to come forth. And later, intelligence is brought to bed of creation."
"Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience."
"Life creates order, but order does not create life."
"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eye."
Four Stars
Here are my favorite quotes from this book:
"People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in the stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends."
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"People have forgotten this truth... But you musn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed."
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
"The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then a dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."
"What ought we be? That is the essential question, the question that concerns spirit and not intelligence. For spirit impregnates intelligence with the creation that is to come forth. And later, intelligence is brought to bed of creation."
"Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience."
"Life creates order, but order does not create life."
"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eye."
Four Stars
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