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Paul Valery quotes about people

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: "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
Paul Valery quote: "Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity,..."
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery
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
Paul Valery quote: "Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are..."
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Paul Valery

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