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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery - It seems that perfection is achieved...


Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

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

It seems that perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.

German
Vollkommenheit entsteht offensichtlich nicht dann, wenn man nichts mehr hinzuzufügen hat, sondern wenn man nichts mehr wegnehmen kann.




See also 

See also...



Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.




Quotes for: perfection


Quotes

Quotes about perfection:


Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.





The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.





Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.





Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.





The perfect does not lie in quantity but in quality.











Quotes

Antoine de Saint-Exupery also said...


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





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.












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