Wednesday, August 22, 2018

 

Indecency

Paul Valéry (1871-1945), Collected Works, Vol. 14: Analects, tr. Stuart Gilbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), p. 222:
Wanting to make other people share one's opinion strikes me as indecent.

Proselytism baffles me.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:39 AM


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