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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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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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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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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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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
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A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
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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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It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
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What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
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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 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 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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