All Paul Valery Quotes
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery in
Dreams
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery in
Art
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery in
Religion
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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 in
Science
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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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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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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
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Paul Valery
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery in
Time
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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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