French - Poet | October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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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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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At times I think and at times I am.
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
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Politeness is organized indifference.
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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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Power without abuse loses its charm.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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