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Biography - Paul Valéry:

French poet, essayist and philosopher.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1945
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

The wind is rising!... We must try to live!”
Paul Valéry

The wind is rising!... We must try to live!

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Translation

(French, German)

Le vent se lève ! Il faut tenter de vivre !”
Paul Valéry

Der Wind hebt an, wir müssen versuchen zu leben.”
Paul Valéry

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
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To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
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My trade and art is to live.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.”
Alan Watts

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."”
Hans Christian Andersen

To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.”
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Quotes for: wind:

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
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We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
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Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

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Beware of spitting against the wind!”
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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Edward Gibbon - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Paul Valéry also said...

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.”
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A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.”
Paul Valéry

The greatest liberty is born of the greatest rigor.”
Paul Valéry

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We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.”
Paul Valéry - Crisis of the Mind

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
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