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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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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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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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The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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