Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: June 29, 1900 - July 31, 1944
Birthday: June 29
Death: July 31
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?
topic: Song, Jobs, Night, Darkness Of Night, Place In Life, Gliding, Santiago
