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Paul Valery Quotes: Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
         

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.


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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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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.



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Nothing beautiful can be summarized.



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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.



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Love is being stupid together.



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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.



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Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.



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