Saint-Exupéry tells below the secret of having a solid comradeship of any kind. I remind my Sauntering self that marriage is a comradeship, so he also is telling the secret of having a solid, self-respecting marriage:
No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through union in the same high effort. (Quoted from Wind, Sand and Stars, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939, p. 195.)
Saint-Exupéry had no solid marriage. That is to say he and his wife did not look outward on the same high values, in a union of the same high effort. For a brief biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, click here.
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