If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryStichwörter: sleep creativity
A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryStichwörter: flight connection doom
It is a matter of life and death for us; for the lead we gain by day on ships and railways is lost each night.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryI shall never again admire a merely brave man.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryStichwörter: courage
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryIn every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryStichwörter: prophecy
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAction and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryNo destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryStichwörter: fate doom destiny calamity
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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