The Marginalian
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Order, Disorder, and Oneself: French Polymath Paul Valéry on How to Never Misplace Anything
Order, Disorder, and Oneself: French Polymath Paul Valéry on How to Never Misplace Anything

“Disorder comes of putting things in places you have laboriously thought up or finally discovered after a series of experiments, calculations, deviations, and successive swerves from your natural bent.”

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