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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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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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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
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The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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