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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.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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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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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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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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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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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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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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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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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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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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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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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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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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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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