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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(June 29, 1900–July 31, 1944)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on How a Simple Human Smile Saved His Life

exupery_lettertoahostage.jpg?w=680Though researchers since Darwin may have spent considerable effort on the science of smiles, at the heart of that simple human expression remains a metaphysical art — one captured nowhere more beautifully and grippingly than in a short account by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(June 29, 1900–July 31, 1944), found in Letter to a Hostage (public library) — the same exquisite short memoir he began writing in December of 1940, a little more than two years before he created The Little Prince on American soil, which also gave us his poignant reflection on what the Sahara desert teaches us about the meaning of life.
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