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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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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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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
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Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
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