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Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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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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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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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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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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