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Science is a collection of successful recipes.

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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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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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There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
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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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Everything changes but the avant-garde.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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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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What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
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My hand feels touched as well as it touches reality says this, and nothing more.
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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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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
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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 poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
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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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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
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