History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer