We see now that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all.

Paul Valéry

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Everything has not been lost, but everything has sensed that it might perish.

Paul Valéry

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But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind.

Paul Valéry

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I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym of 'contemporary'. There are moments and places in history to which 'we moderns' could return without too greatly disturbing the harmony of those times, without seeming objects infinitely curious and conspicuous... creatures shocking, dissonant, and unassailable.

Paul Valéry

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By giving the name of progress to its own tendency to a fatal precision, the world is seeking to add to the benefits of life the advantages of death.

Paul Valéry

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