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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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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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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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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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