"The job has its grandeurs, yes. There..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
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?
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“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.”
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“Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.”