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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
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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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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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History is the science of what never happens twice.
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Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
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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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