These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label Paul Valéry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Valéry. Show all posts

Thursday, March 6, 2014

The rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall


























   I have rarely lost sight of myself; I have detested and adored myself — and so, we have grown old together.

-Paul Valéry, Selected Writings of Paul Valéry
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Title: Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Monday, March 26, 2012

Valéry on Dictionaries and Ghosts



It’s most instructive when you can’t find the right word — it can prove that you’re truly envisaging a mental fact, and not a ghost from a dictionary.

— Paul Valéry, Cahiers/Notebooks (1900)


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