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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

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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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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: October 30th, 1871

Died: July 20th, 1945

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