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Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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What unforeseen thing can there be for the one who has foreseen nothing?

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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Poetry is the ambition to discourse, which aspires to be laden with more meanings and anointed with more music than ordinary language.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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The gods facilitate the first verse; the rest, the poet makes.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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What does not resemble anything does not exist.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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The problem of our times is that the future is no longer what it used to be.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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One must be light like the bird, and not like the feather.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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Every man carries within himself a dictator and an anarchist.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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A competent person is someone who makes mistakes according to the rules.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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Politics is the art of preventing people from meddling in what concerns them.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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History is the science of what never happens twice.