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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.
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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
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If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
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