The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of … - Paul Valery

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I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

Paul Valery

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies.

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We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

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