Colin Smith Quotes

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The journey of Saint-Exupéry is back towards his starting point. We cherish secure happiness, the happiness of childhood, but discover that we must leave childhood whether we want to do so or not. We are therefore launched into Valéry's 'ère successive', where salvation is to be found in action.

Colin Smith

We are fragments, says Saint-Exupéry, of a great construction, which we shall need more time, more silence and more perspective to discover. Intelligence is capable of manipulating a situation, but not of evaluating it.

Colin Smith

The idea of unified substance emerges from Saint-Exupéry's writings. Man is not a collection of acts, but the meaningful sum of them.

Colin Smith