Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

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Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

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Regarder, c’est-à-dire oublier les noms des choses que l’on voit.

Paul Valery

1936

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Valéry, Paul. Quoted in Robert Irwin: A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names, written by Adrian Kohn. c. 1982.

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