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Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,470 books8,844 followersPeople best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale
The Little Prince
(1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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May 25, 2025
"Eine Wahrheit erkennen, heißt vielleicht nur, sie im Schweigen zu sehen. Die Wahrheit erkennen, heißt vielleicht nur, endlich das Recht zur ewigen Ruhe zu haben."
"Wenn ich suche, habe ich gefunden, die er besitzt. Finden heißt sehen. Und wir sollte ich das suche, was für mich noch keinen Sinn hat? Ich sagte dir schon, die Sehnsucht nach Liebe ist Liebe. Und keiner leidet unter dem Verlangen nach etwas, was er nicht begriffen hat. Und doch habe ich auch Sehnsucht nach Dingen verspürt, die noch keinen Sinn hatten. Warum wäre ich sonst Wahrheiten nachgegangen, die ich nicht begreifen konnte?"
- Die Stadt in der Wüste
"Wenn ich suche, habe ich gefunden, die er besitzt. Finden heißt sehen. Und wir sollte ich das suche, was für mich noch keinen Sinn hat? Ich sagte dir schon, die Sehnsucht nach Liebe ist Liebe. Und keiner leidet unter dem Verlangen nach etwas, was er nicht begriffen hat. Und doch habe ich auch Sehnsucht nach Dingen verspürt, die noch keinen Sinn hatten. Warum wäre ich sonst Wahrheiten nachgegangen, die ich nicht begreifen konnte?"
- Die Stadt in der Wüste
July 15, 2025
A good book of German poems-
Meine Lieblingsgedicht:
,,Wir können nur dann in Frieden leben und in Frieden sterben, wenn wir uns unserer Rolle ganz bewusst werden, und sei diese auch noch so unbedeutend und ausgesprochen. Das allein macht glücklich.‘‘
von Wind, Sand und Sterne
Translation:
"We can only live in peace and die in peace if we become fully aware of our role, no matter how insignificant and pronounced. That alone brings happiness."
of Wind, Sand and Stars
Meine Lieblingsgedicht:
,,Wir können nur dann in Frieden leben und in Frieden sterben, wenn wir uns unserer Rolle ganz bewusst werden, und sei diese auch noch so unbedeutend und ausgesprochen. Das allein macht glücklich.‘‘
von Wind, Sand und Sterne
Translation:
"We can only live in peace and die in peace if we become fully aware of our role, no matter how insignificant and pronounced. That alone brings happiness."
of Wind, Sand and Stars
August 9, 2022
An inspiring introduction into Saint-Exupéry‘s work and beliefs, which encourages to dig deeper into his writings!
December 21, 2025
Die Art und Weise, wie er schreibt, ist einfach unglaublich und so ehrlich. I need more.
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