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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 wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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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 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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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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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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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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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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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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