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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: Charles Baudelaire Jean de La Fontaine Tahar Ben Jelloun Alfred de Vigny Raymond Queneau Theophile Gautier Andre Breton |
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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 Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. Paul Valery Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. Paul Valery Power without abuse loses its charm. Paul Valery Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Paul Valery Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Paul Valery That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Paul Valery The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valery The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. Paul Valery The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. Paul Valery The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. Paul Valery To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. Paul Valery Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Paul Valery War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. Paul Valery We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. Paul Valery |
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