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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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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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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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