Excerpt from La Soirée Avec M. Teste
La bêtise n'est pas mon fort. J'ai vu beaucoup d'individus, j'ai visité quelques nations, j'ai pris ma part d'entreprises diverses sans les aimer, j'ai mangé presque tous les jours, j'ai touché à des femmes. Je revois maintenant quelques centaines de visages, deux ou trois grands spectacles, et peut - être la substance de vmgt livres. Je n'ai pas retenu le meilleur ni le pire de ces choses est resté ce qui l'a pu.
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Paul Valry was born in 1871 and died in Paris in 1945. A towering figure in modern French literature, his fascinatingly complex attitudes to poetry were deeply influenced by the impression made on him in his youth by Mallarm's poems. Buried with national mourning in the "graveyard by the sea" of his poem, the cemetery at Ste.
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