Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, ex... -Paul Valery

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

Paul Valery , Poet
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At times I think and at times I am....
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....
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly....
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well....
A poem is never finished, only abandoned....
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone....
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false....
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business....
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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I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature....
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