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Man kennt nur die Dinge, die man zähmt. Eine Anthologie.
128 pages, Hardcover
Published September 1, 1998
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About the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,570 books8,794 followersPeople best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale
The Little Prince
(1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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April 28, 2018
Wunderschön. Ich habe mich schon beim Lesen des Inhaltsverzeichnises in diese Sammelung verliebt.
"Der Mensch braucht lange um geboren zu werden"
"Ich stamme aus meiner Kindheit wie aus einem Land"
"Die wahre Freude ist die Freude am andern"
"Wie wenig Lärm machen die wirklichen Wunder"
"Wahrheit wird nicht durch Beweise erschlossen"
"Ich ehre nur den Kern in Menschen, der dem Feuer wiedersteht" ...
Satz nach Satz schrieb ich ab. Wobei während dem Abschreiben, die Sätze tiefer herabsinkten, tiefer und tiefer.
Das Herz ist bodenlos. Es passt so wahnsinnig viel herein. Wie in eine Wundertüte.
Ja, vielleicht ist dieses Buch für mich auch sowas wie eine Wundertüte.
Eine wundervolle wundertüte der Wörter, die nicht bloß Wörter sind, sondern viel mehr als das.
Wie schrieb er nochmal: "Ich ergreife Besitz von der Welt durch Worte"
"Ja, das stimmt", würde der kleine Prinz ihm sagen, mit ein zartes Lächeln und ein gehobener Hand, der ihm freundlich Adieu winkt.
"Der Mensch braucht lange um geboren zu werden"
"Ich stamme aus meiner Kindheit wie aus einem Land"
"Die wahre Freude ist die Freude am andern"
"Wie wenig Lärm machen die wirklichen Wunder"
"Wahrheit wird nicht durch Beweise erschlossen"
"Ich ehre nur den Kern in Menschen, der dem Feuer wiedersteht" ...
Satz nach Satz schrieb ich ab. Wobei während dem Abschreiben, die Sätze tiefer herabsinkten, tiefer und tiefer.
Das Herz ist bodenlos. Es passt so wahnsinnig viel herein. Wie in eine Wundertüte.
Ja, vielleicht ist dieses Buch für mich auch sowas wie eine Wundertüte.
Eine wundervolle wundertüte der Wörter, die nicht bloß Wörter sind, sondern viel mehr als das.
Wie schrieb er nochmal: "Ich ergreife Besitz von der Welt durch Worte"
"Ja, das stimmt", würde der kleine Prinz ihm sagen, mit ein zartes Lächeln und ein gehobener Hand, der ihm freundlich Adieu winkt.
September 15, 2025
ich muss wirklich mehr von ihm lesen als nur der kleine prinz
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