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Paul Valery
French
Poet
Born:
Oct 30
,
1871
Died:
Jul 20
,
1945
Always
Great
He
Man
People
Science
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At times I think and at times I am.
Paul Valery
Think
Am
Times
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.
Paul Valery
War
People
Profit
Other
Massacre
Know
Who
Each
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
Paul Valery
Great
Man
Gone
Others
Great Man
He
Leaves
Loss
After
Who
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Work
Abandon
Finishes
Never
He
Merely
His
Artist
Really
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Future
Time
Trouble
Our
Times
Used
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery
Dancer
Hybrid
Calculator
Businessman
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery
Universe
Our
Somehow
Structure
Built
Intellect
Which
Plan
Present
Inner
Profound
Symmetry
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
God
Alone
Man
Solitude
Gave
Finding
More
Feel
Make
Him
His
Created
Companion
Sufficiently
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
Paul Valery
Differences
Reciprocate
Enriched
Our
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Paul Valery
Attitude
Judge
Nothing
Our
Weaknesses
More
Fellows
Judgments
Reveals
Than
Us
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Future
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Like
Used
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
Made
Long
Become
Before
Our
Ourselves
Must
Pass
Years
Very
Truths
Flesh
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery
History
Science
Repeated
Which
Things
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery
Every
Everyone
Everywhere
Has-Been
Always
Been
False
Being
Which
Believed
Every Chance
Chance
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Paul Valery
Great
History
Words
Thought
Finds
Seeks
Absurd
Up
May
The History Of
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