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VALÉRY Paul (1871-1945).
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VALÉRY Paul (1871-1945).
CARNET autograph, 1903| notebook in-12 (13 x 8 cm) of 18 ff. or approx. 29 pages in pencil, green moire boards.
Precious notebook of various notes, especially on literature.
Alongside geometric diagrams and mathematical problems, bank accounts and situations, addresses (J.K. [Huysmans], Houssaye...), Valéry jotted down numerous thoughts and reflections: "I have noticed that the acquisition of all knowledge consists in the adoption of restrictions to the imaginative walk or slickness"...| "Hamlet's monologues last, in truth, a second"| "Every entity is but an abbreviation, a designation of possible experiences"...| "G. belongs to that race of writers who are pleasant to read and who sometimes attach. But if you close his book, it doesn't resurrect itself"| "Theater is the mirror of the masses"...| "Beautiful verse constitutes and destroys poetry"| "NIETZSCHE is a writer - a writer = a man whose fury makes people laugh, must make people laugh"| "The stupidity of groups. Idiots feel each other's elbows"... Notes for his will intended for Maître JOSSET: "I wish that after my death our children be equal in rights"... Etc. Provenance: François VALÉRY, son of the poet (December 13, 2007, no. 155).
CARNET autograph, 1903| notebook in-12 (13 x 8 cm) of 18 ff. or approx. 29 pages in pencil, green moire boards.
Precious notebook of various notes, especially on literature.
Alongside geometric diagrams and mathematical problems, bank accounts and situations, addresses (J.K. [Huysmans], Houssaye...), Valéry jotted down numerous thoughts and reflections: "I have noticed that the acquisition of all knowledge consists in the adoption of restrictions to the imaginative walk or slickness"...| "Hamlet's monologues last, in truth, a second"| "Every entity is but an abbreviation, a designation of possible experiences"...| "G. belongs to that race of writers who are pleasant to read and who sometimes attach. But if you close his book, it doesn't resurrect itself"| "Theater is the mirror of the masses"...| "Beautiful verse constitutes and destroys poetry"| "NIETZSCHE is a writer - a writer = a man whose fury makes people laugh, must make people laugh"| "The stupidity of groups. Idiots feel each other's elbows"... Notes for his will intended for Maître JOSSET: "I wish that after my death our children be equal in rights"... Etc. Provenance: François VALÉRY, son of the poet (December 13, 2007, no. 155).