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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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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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to live means to lack something at every moment
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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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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A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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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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We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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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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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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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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I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
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History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
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History is the science of what never happens twice.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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