ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) commented on Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a …
The prose here is beautiful. I aspire to read the french language version one day.
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Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a …
A sheet spread beneath an apple tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.
— Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Page 69)
ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) commented on Madrigal's magic key to Spanish by Margarita Madrigal
I’m really enjoying these lessons.
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a …
‘What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.’
— Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Page 38)
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a …
Life may scatter and keep us apart; it may prevent us from thinking very often of one another; but we know that our comrades are somewhere ‘out there’ — where, one can hardly say — silent, forgotten, but deeply faithful.
— Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Page 27)
Love this passage
ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) commented on Madrigal's magic key to Spanish by Margarita Madrigal
I’m enjoying working through this classic Spanish language lesson book. On to chapter 4.
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a …
The joy of living, I say, was summed up for me in the remembered sensation of that first burning and aromatic swallow, that mixture of milk and coffee and bread by which men hold communion with tranquil pastures, exotic plantations, and golden harvests, communion with the earth
— Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Page 17)
ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) commented on Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a …
"The joy of living, I say, was summed up for me in the remembered sensation of that first burning and aromatic swallow, that mixture of milk and coffee and bread by which men hold communion with tranquil pastures, exotic plantations, and golden harvests, communion with the earth."
ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) wants to read Madrigal's magic key to Spanish by Margarita Madrigal
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Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a memoir by the French aristocrat …
ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) wants to read Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars (French title: Terre des hommes, literally "Land of Men") is a …
It's finally time to read this classic.
ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) wants to read Wonder by R. J. Palacio
ℝobin (#Bookwyrm) finished reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
A novel.
This is a good read, I do enjoy it at times. But it is repeating the same things over and over and after 210 pages, I am calling it. Going to move on to something else. The end.