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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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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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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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A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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Stupidity is not my strong suit.
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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
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No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
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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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Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
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