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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.

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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.
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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.
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Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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Everything changes but the avant-garde.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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