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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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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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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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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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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 purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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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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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
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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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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.
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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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Everything changes but the avant-garde.
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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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We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
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