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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.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Self-love
| Keywords:
condemn, contrary, losing, mixture, mixtures, permanently, prevents, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, pursues, self-loving, selfishness, self love, wont, wont to
«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.»
«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»
«Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.»
«That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.»
«Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.»
«History is the science of things which are not repeated.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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History
| Keywords:
history of science, repeated
«Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.»
«We are enriched by our reciprocate differences»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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enriched, reciprocate, reciprocated, reciprocating
«A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts»
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