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Paul Valéry (Writer)

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
— Paul Valéry death
Mans 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 man
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
— Paul Valery politics
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
— paul valery men
The wind is rising… we must attempt to live.
— paul valery sin
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 truth
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.
— paul valery dreams
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
— paul valery science
Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing.
— paul valery end
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
Politeness is organized indifference.
— paul valery
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
— paul valery art
A man who is of sound mind is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
— Paul Valéry mind
It would be impossible to love anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.
— Paul Valery love
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 time
War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other
— Paul Valery war
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
— Paul Valery love
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
— Paul Valery politics
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
— Paul Valery politics
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best
— Paul Valery purpose
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
— Paul Valery people
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
— Paul Valery time
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
— Paul Valery world
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
— Paul Valery business
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
— Paul Valery believe
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
— Paul Valery dreams
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
— Paul Valery universe
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
— Paul Valery rich
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
— Paul Valery loss
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
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
— Paul Valery thoughts
A mans true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
— Paul Valery self
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
— Paul Valery poem
At times I think and at times I am.
— Paul Valery time
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
— Paul Valery books
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
— Paul Valery god
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
— Paul Valery poetry
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
— Paul Valery truth
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
— Paul Valery writer
Power without abuse loses its charm.
— Paul Valery power
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
— Paul Valery success
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
— Paul Valery
God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through
— Paul Valery god
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows
— Paul Valery men
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 history

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