Valery
The Intellectual
The wind rises, we must try to live. Paul peered into the mind as one peers at the sea. With patience. With vertigo.
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“Le vent se lève !... Il faut tenter de vivre !”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“The wind is rising!... We must try to live!”
— Le Cimetière marin
“L'homme n'est l'homme que par sa capacité de dépassement.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Man is only man by his capacity to exceed.”
— Inconnu
“Un poème n'est jamais fini, il est seulement abandonné.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
— Inconnu
“Ce qui a été cru par tous, partout et toujours, a toutes les chances d'être faux.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“What has been believed by everyone, everywhere, and always, has every chance of being false.”
— Inconnu
“Que de choses il faut ignorer pour 'agir' !”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“How many things one must ignore in order to 'act'!”
— Inconnu
“Ce qui n'est pas fixé est mort. Ce qui est fixé est aussi mort.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“What is not fixed is dead. What is fixed is also dead.”
— Inconnu
“La syntaxe est une faculté de l'âme.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Syntax is a faculty of the soul.”
— Inconnu
