"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
-Paul Valery
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"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.“
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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
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"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
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