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Paul Valery quotes

French Poet October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945

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All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate and marvelously reasonable thoughts. What should we be without the help of that which does not exist? Very little. And our unoccupied minds would languish if fables, mistaken notions, abstractions, beliefs, and monsters, hypotheses, and the so-called problems of metaphysics did not people with beings and objectless images our natural depths and darkness. Myths are... Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "Love is being stupid together."
Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. Paul Valery
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave..."
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different..."
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are..."
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. Paul Valery
I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a determined analysis of definite and previously prescribed conditions, whatever its value might be once it had been produced, did not leave the mind of its creator without having modified him, and forced him to recognize and in some way reorganize himself. I said to myself that it was not the accomplished work, and its appearance and effect in the... 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
Ingre? pencil pursues ideal grace to the point of monstrosity: the spine never long and supple enough, the neck flexible enough, the thighs smooth enough, or all the curves of the body sufficiently beguiling to the eye, which envelopes and caresses more than it seems them. The Odalisque, with a hint of the plesiosaurus about her, makes one wonder what might have resulted from a carefully controlled selection, through the centuries, of a breed of woman specially designed for pleasure? as the... Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph."
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "Politics is the art of preventing people from busying..."
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. 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

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