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The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?
Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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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Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
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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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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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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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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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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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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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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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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
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We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
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History is the science of what never happens twice.
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Poems are never finished - just abandoned
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
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