Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.Paul Valery
Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.
Paul Valery
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Paul Valery
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.
Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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