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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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By Paul Valery
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
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By Paul Valery
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"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
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By Paul Valery
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language."
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By Paul Valery
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"La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from stick"
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By Paul Valery
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths,"
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By Paul Valery
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