Ideas Quote by Paul Valery

“The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.”

Paul Valery

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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.

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The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

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Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

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It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

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