Paul Valery Quotes on Literature
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Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.