Quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery: I have always loved the desert....
Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1900 - Died: 1944
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about silence:
What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Quotes for: desert
But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.
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