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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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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 mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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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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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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Everything changes but the avant-garde.
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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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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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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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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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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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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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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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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
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