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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

~Paul Valery

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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

~Paul Valery

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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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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

~Paul Valery

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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: October 30th, 1871

Died: July 20th, 1945

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