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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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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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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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There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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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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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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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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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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Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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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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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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