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Paul Valery1 quote
Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees. — Paul Valery · 1936Stephane Mallarme1 quote
To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal. — Stephane Mallarme · 1891Voltaire1 quote
The agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. — Voltaire · 1756Walter White1 quote
Say my name. — Walter White · 2012William Hazlitt1 quote
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. — William Hazlitt · 1839William Shakespeare1 quote
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare · 1597