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Paul Valery
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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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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
War
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Time
"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Science
"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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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Science
"In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Poetry
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Love is being stupid together."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Love
"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
History
"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
History
"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."
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Paul Valery
Topic(s):
Great
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