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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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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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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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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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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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Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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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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Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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