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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.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
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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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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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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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