Paul Valery

(16 votes)   We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

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(13 votes)   Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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(13 votes)   Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

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(13 votes)   Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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(128 votes)   If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.

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(105 votes)   Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

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(48 votes)   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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(46 votes)   A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

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(18 votes)   A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

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(16 votes)   To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

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(15 votes)   A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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(15 votes)   Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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(13 votes)   A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

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(13 votes)   A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

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(13 votes)   God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

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