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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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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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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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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 advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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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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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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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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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
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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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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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