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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupery - As for the future, your task...


Biography - Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

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

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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Pour ce qui est de l'avenir, il ne s'agit pas de le prévoir, mais de le rendre possible.

German
Unsere Aufgabe ist es nicht, die Zukunft vorherzusehen, sondern sie zu ermöglichen.




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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.











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