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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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.
Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Paul Valery
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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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
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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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Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
Paul Valery
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
Paul Valery
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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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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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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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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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Paul Valery
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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