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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
— "Letter to an American" (1944)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
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Updated 2026-06-21
He wrote the most translated French book after the Bible—a fable about a lonely child on an asteroid—then climbed back into a cockpit at 44, too old and too sick for combat, and vanished over the Mediterranean.
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Born to Lyon aristocracy in 1900, Saint-Exupéry trained as a commercial pilot in the early 1920s and flew airmail routes across Europe, Africa, and South America. Between 1926 and 1939 he published four works—the short story The Aviator, novels Southern Mail and Night Flight, and the memoir Wind, Sand and Stars—drawing from the solitude and danger of early aviation. He joined the French Air Force for World War II, flew reconnaissance until France's armistice with Germany in 1940, then lived in exile in the United States from 1941 to 1943, helping persuade it to enter the war; during that stret…
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Have you looked at a modern airplane? Have you followed from year to year the evolution of its lines?
— Ch III : The Tool
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Precisely because it is perfect the machine dissembles its own existence instead of forcing itself upon our notice.
— Ch III : The Tool
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Human drama does not show itself on the surface of life. It is not played out in the visible world, but in the hearts of men. … One man in misery can disrupt the peace of a city.
— Ch. IX Barcelona and Madrid (1936)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal.
— Ch. IX Barcelona and Madrid (1936)
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