Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes and sayings page 4 (novelist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 48 we have for him.

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.”

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

“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.”

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”

“The one thing that matters is the effort.”

“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”