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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).


All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent).

German
Alle großen Leute waren einmal Kinder (aber nur wenige erinnern sich daran).




See also 

See also...



Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.




Quotes

Quotes for: child


We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.











Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery also said...


As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





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





Language is a source of misunderstanding.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.












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