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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
Essayist
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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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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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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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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Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.
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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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History is the science of what never happens twice.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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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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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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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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