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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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 dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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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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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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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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