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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)

Towards Rothbury

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15 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2013

15 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. Andrew MacLaren-Scott says:
    September 15, 2013 at 11:52 pm

    Beautiful photo. Puzzling thought.

  2. Claude says:
    September 16, 2013 at 4:56 am

    Oh! St-Ex is not always easy….Great photo!

  3. ....peter:) says:
    September 16, 2013 at 4:58 am

    This is a good thought for the week Cherie… and this is a superb image framed by the wildflowers… perfect!:)…..peter:)

  4. Ginnie says:
    September 16, 2013 at 8:13 am

    WOW. Something to sink my teeth into for this week, Cherry! :)

  5. Sean Jeating says:
    September 16, 2013 at 8:49 pm

    Ahem, why would even Andrew find this puzzling.
    There is nothing puzzling about this. The not seldom overrated Antoine just managed to make a truism sound tricky.
    Or would anyone find following sentence tricky?
    Perfection is achieved when there is nothing more to add and nothing left to take away.
    The peace of the night.

  6. Claude says:
    September 16, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    Dans quelque domaine que ce soit, la perfection est enfin atteinte non pas lorsqu’il n’y a plus rien à ajouter mais lorsqu’il n’y a plus rien à enlever.

    In any field whatsoever, perfection is finally attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing to remove.

    Antoine de St-Exupéry

    For me it means:In anything, the less, the better!