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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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 wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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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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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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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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It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
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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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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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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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What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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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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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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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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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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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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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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