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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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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
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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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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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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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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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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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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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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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