On perfection

On perfection

 

The author of "The Little Prince."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1942, roughly two years before his plane disappeared while he was on a mission for the Free French Air Force

 

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), French writer and pioneer aviator 

 

The more I’ve thought about this statement, the more profound and right it seems to me (at least from certain angles).

 

 


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