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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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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 (1871 - 1945), 1895
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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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 (1871 - 1945)
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

Results from Classic Quotes:

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

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