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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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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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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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