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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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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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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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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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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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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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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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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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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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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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Everything changes but the avant-garde.
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There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
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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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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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