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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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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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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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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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What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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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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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
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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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