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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.
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There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
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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.
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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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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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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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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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I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
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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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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
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The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?
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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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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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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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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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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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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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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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