Occupation: Writer Birth: June 29, 1900 Death: July 31, 1944
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give..
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, bu….
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you..
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds ….
I shall never again admire a merely brave man..
A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man..
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed..
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young..
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world..
You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets..
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you..
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes le….
The only things you learn are the things you tame.
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for s….
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water..
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other..
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen..
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man..
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity..
Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes..