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Poems are never finished - just abandoned

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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Writer
Cette
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Paul-Ambroise Valery
Abandoned
Poems
Finished
Never

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Everything changes but the avant-garde.
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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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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At times I think and at times I am.
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