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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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.Paul Valery
Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
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We are wont to condemn self-love but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
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