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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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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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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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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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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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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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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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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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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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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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