A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Voici mon secret. Il est tr�s simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le c�ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Le langage est source de malentendus. Language is the source of misunderstandings.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours leur donner des explications. Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part... What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien � ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien � enlever. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
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