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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
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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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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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Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
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Everything changes but the avant-garde.
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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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The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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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 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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What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
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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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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
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