Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Museum of Dead Sentiments
Paul Valéry (1871-1945), Collected Works, Vol. 14: Analects, tr. Stuart Gilbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), p. 187:
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How many ancient practices—honor, respect, veneration, panegyrics, thanksgiving—are by way of becoming oddities and passing from active life into museums! (Someone might do worse than found a Museum of Dead Sentiments.)
