saint exupery
People 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.
“No se ve bien sino con el corazón,lo esencial es invisible a los ojos”
“Pero nosotros, que comprendemos la vida, nos burlamos de los números”
“Los hombres-dijo el principito-se recluyen en trenes rápidos sin saber lo que buscan.Entonces se inquietan y dan vueltas”
“Solo los niños saben lo que buscan”
“¿Acaso no se hallaban contentos donde estaban?-Nunca está nadie contento donde se encuentra”
“Son realmente hermosas pero vacías rosas -añadió el principito- Uno se siente impulsado a dejarse morir por ustedes”
“Si lloras será por tu culpa -dijo el principito- Yo no quise hacerte ningún mal;pero tu insististe en que te domesticara”
“Por eso su ocupación es hermosa...Es verdaderamente útil”
“Decididamente, los adultos son raros, pensó el principito durante el viaje”
“Yo soy un hombre serio...Y se hincha de orgullo -Pero para mí no es un hombre !Es un Hongo!”
“!Hablas como los adultos!;!Lo Confundes todo...No sabes distinguir!”
“Es triste olvidar a un amigo y volverse como los adultos que se interesan por los números”
“Lo que lo hace hermoso es algo invisible...los ojos no siempre ven. Hay que buscar con el corazón”
“Esta es la clave del sentido de la vida; amor es preocuparse por otro:flor, estrella,volcán,hombre...es sentirse responsable por otro”
“একদিন আমি তেতাল্লিশ বার সূর্য ডুবতে দেখলাম।' একটু পরে সে আরও বলল--'জানো, লোকেদের যখন খুব মন খারাপ থাকে তখন সূর্যডোবা দেখতে ভাল লাগে।''তেতাল্লিশবারের দিন তাহলে তোমার খুব মন খারাপ ছিল?' কোন জবাবই কিন্তু দিল না খুদে রাজকুমার।”
“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are nolonger interested in anything but figures..”