How a Simple Human Smile Saved His Life
In a creative sandbox for what would become Saint-Exuperys most famous
line in The Little Prince-- 'What is essential is invisible to the
eye.'-- he writes: "How does life construct those lines of force which
make us alive?Real miracles make little noise! Essential events are so
simple!" One such essential event in Saint-Exupery's life had to do with
the mundane miracle of a simple smile, a gift he so poetically
describes as, "a certain miracle of the sun, which had taken so much
trouble, for so many million years, to achieve, through ourselves, that
quality of a smile which was pure success."
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