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Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)
French critic & poet [more author details]

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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.: Paul Valery
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.: Paul Valery
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.: Paul Valery
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.: Paul Valery
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In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.: Paul Valery
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It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.: Paul Valery
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.: Paul Valery
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.: Paul Valery
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.: Paul Valery
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, 1895
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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