The seeds of civilization
Saint-Exupéry uses wheat as a metaphor for civilization, seeds stored and sown in order to take root in people, something...
Full retreat, full disaster
Saint-Exupéry uses a vivid simile to highlight the desperate and futile cost of trying to stem what was (at that...
Flung into the fire
Saint-Exupéry, himself one of the fire-flung pilots of the French air force in the early, desperate days of the war,...
Mineral metaphor
Saint-Exupery takes your breath away with the originality of his metaphors. That peace is greater than the sum of its...
As fabulous as …
A marvelously original simile for 'fabulous', found in this slim, exquisitely written book by Saint-Exupery. Something resonant in that phrase,...
Humankind in one man
A thoughtful comment by Saint-Exupéry, whose slim Flight to Arras is packed with insights into the nature of civilization, peace,...
A country or a farm
A profound distinction, in my view, between a sum of parts and a sum of gifts. And does this just...
What is civilization?
Saint-Exupéry has a knack for razor-sharp insights into the nature of big things: peace, war, civilization. Here he seems somewhat...
Of anguish and identity
Witnessing various global unravellings, this simple assertion by the wise Saint-Exupery makes one wonder if we will ever learn to...
Expert in the next room
Saint-Exupéry, on the aerial front line of a desperate war effort, sums up the difficulties facing the French military leadership;...
What is war?
Saint-Exupery wrote a slim, subtle stream-of-consciousness account of a futile aerial reconnaissance flight over enemy occupied territory which he had...
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