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Paul Valery quotes about thoughts

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
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
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
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
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
Paul Valery quote: "The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is..."
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
Paul Valery quote: "Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our..."
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. Paul Valery
Paul Valery quote: "A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. Paul Valery

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