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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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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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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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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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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
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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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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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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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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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