17 quotes by Paul Valery

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

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

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“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” — Paul Valery

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“Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.” — Paul Valery

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

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“The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.” — Paul Valery

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

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“History is the science of things which are not repeated.” — Paul Valery

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“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

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“Love is being stupid together.” — Paul Valery

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“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” — Paul Valery

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

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“Power without abuse loses its charm.” — Paul Valery

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“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

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“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.” — Paul Valery

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“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

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

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