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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
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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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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
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There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
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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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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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to live means to lack something at every moment
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
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It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
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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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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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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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