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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.

~Paul Valery

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

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At times I think and at times I am.

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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

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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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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

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Power without abuse loses its charm.

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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: October 30th, 1871

Died: July 20th, 1945

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