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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
Essayist
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I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
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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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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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What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
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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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There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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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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It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
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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 most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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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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