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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.
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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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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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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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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
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The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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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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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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