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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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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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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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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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