Thursday 25 March 2010

Antoine-Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Roger Foscolombe de Saint-Exupéry

Um escritor que eu realmente gosto e sinto prazer em ler os livros dele é o Saint-Exupèry(29/06/1900—31/07/1944), francês, que também foi piloto e ilustrador. Morreu aos 44 anos quando estava pilotando um avião sobre o Mar Mediterrâneo em uma missão de reconhecimento as cidades de Grenoble  e Annecy. 

Saint-Exupèry tem ao todo 14 obras, sendo que 7 são obras póstumas. Suas obras são inspiradas em sua experiência como piloto, com exceção do "O Pequeno Príncipe", sua obra mais importante, é um livro poético.

"O Pequeno Príncipe" foi publicado em 1943, foi traduzido em mais de 180 idiomas e vendeu mais de 80 milhões de cópias, tornando-se um dos livros mais vendidos do mundo. 

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

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.”

“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

“Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.”

“I love Freedom! So the things I love, I leave them free to turn because it was conquered, if not return was because they never had them.”

“Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.”

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

“How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.”

“What value has compassion
That does not take its object in its arms?”

0 comments:

Post a Comment