Wind, Sand And Stars Quotes
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible."
"The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings."
"One cannot buy the friendship of a Mermoz, of a companion to whom one is bound forever by ordeals suffered in common."
"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
"The central struggle of men has ever been to understand one another, to join together for the common weal."
"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
"Every machine will gradually take on this patina and lose its identity in its function."
"Happiness! It is useless to seek it elsewhere than in this warmth of human relations."
"We are young barbarians still marveling at our new toys—that is what we are."
"The body, we may say, then, is but an honest tool, the body is but a servant."
"Every week men sit comfortably at the cinema and look on at the bombardment of some Shanghai or other, some Guernica, and marvel without a trace of horror."
"The physical drama itself cannot touch us until someone points out its spiritual sense."
"Roads avoid the barren lands, the rocks, the sands. They shape themselves to man’s needs and run from stream to stream."
"But a cruel light has blazed, and our sight has been sharpened."
"I was thrilled by the virginity of a soil which no step of man or beast had sullied."
"In a world in which life so perfectly responds to life, where flowers mingle with flowers in the wind’s eye, man alone builds his isolation."
"What a space between men their spiritual natures create!"
"Man in the presence of man is as solitary as in the face of a wide winter sky."
"How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played!"
"What is going on inside me I cannot tell. In the sky a thousand stars are magnetized, and I lie glued by the swing of the planet to the sand."
"Our civilization is an empire more imperious than this empire."
"Memory... is that obscure range from which, as waters from a spring, are born our dreams."
"Water! How many days were they wont to march in the desert to reach the nearest well."
"You have done a good day’s work and have the right to sleep. Go to bed."
"The true life of the desert is not made up of the marches of tribes in search of pasture, but of the game that goes endlessly on."
"He who would travel happily must travel light."
"Engine trouble here was out of the question: there was not the least danger of such a thing."
"Your family troubles are none of our affair. Are you in danger here, yes or no?"
"Do as you please," we said, finally, and we left him where he was.
"Nothing had changed visibly, and we ourselves were unchanged."
"Human events display two faces, one of drama and the other of indifference."
"For man’s greatness does not reside merely in the destiny of the species: each individual is an empire."
"The shooting died down almost immediately, and silence fell again."
"This, perhaps, explains the unperturbed faces of these peasants."
"Shells filled the night with absurd parabolas during their three seconds of freedom."
"Madrid was asleep—or rather Madrid was feigning sleep."
"Nothing is easier than to divide men into rightists and leftists, hunchbacks and straightbacks."
"All men feel the need to escape from prison."
"No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal."
"To set man free it is enough that we help one another to realize that there does exist a goal towards which all mankind is striving."
"There is no profit in discussing ideologies."
"Only the Spirit, if it breathe upon the clay, can create Man."