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Paul Valery: 'Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.'

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Paul Valery: 'A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.'

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Paul Valery: '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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Paul Valery: 'A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.'

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Paul Valery: 'In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.'

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Paul Valery: '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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Paul Valery: 'Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.'

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Paul Valery: 'A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.'

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Paul Valery: '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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Marcel Proust: 'We become moral when we are unhappy.'

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Marcel Proust: 'People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.'

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Marcel Proust: 'People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.'

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Marcel Proust: 'It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.'

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Marcel Proust: 'The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.'

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Marcel Proust: 'The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.'

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Marcel Proust: 'Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.'

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