Tag: Paul Valéry

Consenting to dream of the actual world…

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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.-Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (1871 – 1945) An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.-Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (1863 – 1952) Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission… Continue reading Consenting to dream of the actual world…

Murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers…

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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.-Herbert Hoover (1874 – 1964) The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.-Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934 – 2012) War does not determine who is right - only who is left.-Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) There is no… Continue reading Murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers…