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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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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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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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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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