Paul Valery
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Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (French: [pl valei] ; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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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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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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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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