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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. Paul Valery

Loss, Great Man, Leaves

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery

Dreams, Best Way, Wake

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery

Religion, Through, Shows

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. - Paul Valery

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. Paul Valery

Art, Never, His

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. Paul Valery

Profound, Which, Intellect

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery

Poetry, Never, Poem

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. Paul Valery

Hybrid, Dancer, Calculator

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery

Companion, Sufficiently

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

War, Other, Massacre

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. Paul Valery

Give, Psychology, Purpose

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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Paul Valery

Mind, Sound Mind, Sound

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery

Books, Same, Own

Love is being stupid together. - Paul Valery

Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery

Love, Stupid, Being

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

Art, His, Provide

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery

Which, Always, Been

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

Science, Folly, Capital

Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valery

Indifference, Organized

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery

Time, Times, Future

Power without abuse loses its charm. Paul Valery

Abuse, Charm, Loses

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. Paul Valery

Infinitely, Thoughts, His

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. Paul Valery

Which, Almost, Impossible

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Paul Valery

Never, Few, Serious

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. Paul Valery

Pass, Very, Before

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

Thought, May, Absurd

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. Paul Valery

Dangers, Disorder, World

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. Paul Valery

Reciprocate, Enriched, Our

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