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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
Essayist
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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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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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A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.
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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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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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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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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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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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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
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If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
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