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Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
Essayist
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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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We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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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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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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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 what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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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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Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
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The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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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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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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