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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
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The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?
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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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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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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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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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