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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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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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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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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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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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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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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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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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History is the science of what never happens twice.
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If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
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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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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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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
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