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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
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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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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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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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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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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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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.
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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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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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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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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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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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At times I think and at times I am.
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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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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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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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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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