A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

Paul Valery

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

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

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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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There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: by Paul Valery

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life:

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History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

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An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as... by Paul Valery

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

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Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences. by Paul Valery

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

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Nothing beautiful can be summarized. by Paul Valery

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

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An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

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

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

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Sometimes I think, sometimes I am . by Paul Valery

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

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If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a c... by Paul Valery

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used... by Paul Valery

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

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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be unders... by Paul Valery

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

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A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. by Paul Valery

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

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We hope vaguely but dread precisely. by Paul Valery

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never seriou... by Paul Valery

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. by Paul Valery

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves... by Paul Valery

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

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Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

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[Beauty is] that which makes us despair. by Paul Valery

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.