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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
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If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
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Cognition reigns but does not rule.
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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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 universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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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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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
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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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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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Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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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 businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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