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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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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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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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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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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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If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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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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At times I think and at times I am.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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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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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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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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