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Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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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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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
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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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There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.
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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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Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
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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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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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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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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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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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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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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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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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History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
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