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Wartime Writings 1939-1944 QUOTES

Wartime Writings 1939-1944 QUOTES

1 " How difficult it is to advance at one's own internal rhythm when one is constantly fighting against the inertia of the material world. Everything is always on the verge of stopping. "

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wartime Writings 1939-1944

2 " Somewhere along the way we have gone astray. The human anthill is richer than ever before. We have more wealth and more leisure, and yet we lack something essential, which we find it difficult to describe. We feel less human; somewhere we have lost our mysterious prerogatives. "

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wartime Writings 1939-1944

3 " A cathedral is built with stones; it is made up of stones; but the cathedral ennobles each stone, which becomes a cathedral stone. In the same way, you will only find brotherhood in something larger than yourselves, because one is a brother "in" something, not merely a brother "

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wartime Writings 1939-1944

4 " It is true that technical progress in modern times has linked men together like a complex nervous system. The means of travel are numerous and communication is instantaneous - we are joined together materially like the cells of a single body, but this body has as yet no soul. This organism is not yet aware of its unity as a whole. "

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wartime Writings 1939-1944

5 " Life creates order, but order does not create life. "

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wartime Writings 1939-1944

6 " …I’m fed up with myself—with my difficulty in expressing myself in words about anything. I’m imprisoned in myself—even symbolically. "

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wartime Writings 1939-1944

7 " One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh (War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1939-1944) "

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Wartime Writings 1939-1944