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Type: Poet Quotes Category: French Poet Quotes Date of Birth: October 30, 1871 Date of Death: July 20, 1945 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Paul Valery Related Authors: Arthur Rimbaud Jean de La Fontaine Alphonse de Lamartine Charles Baudelaire Andre Breton Tahar Ben Jelloun Alfred de Vigny Raymond Queneau Widget to Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, Blogger, and more |
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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Paul Valery A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. Paul Valery A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. Paul Valery A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Paul Valery A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. Paul Valery A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. Paul Valery At times I think and at times I am. Paul Valery Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. 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 Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. Paul Valery Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. Paul Valery Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. Paul Valery Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. Paul Valery Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valery |
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