Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.”
“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.”
“We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.”
“If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!”
“No 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.”
“She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.”
“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”
“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.”
“Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.”
“It's hard luck always having to be a judge.”
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