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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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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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Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
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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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to live means to lack something at every moment
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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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 universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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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 only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
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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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
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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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