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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
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A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.
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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
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