Quote #32

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

More from Paul Valery

  1. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
  2. The future is not what it used to be.
  3. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
  4. On a toujours cherche des explications quand c'etait des representations qu'on pouvait seulement essaye d'inventer.
  5. Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated.
  6. Ma main se sent touchee aussi bien qu'elle touche ; reel veut dire cela, et rien de plus.
  7. A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it-that is to say, gives it to the public.
  8. A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

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