35 Quotations by Paul Valery
- 1. A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
- 2. A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
- 3. A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
- 4. A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
- 5. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- 6. A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliv ...
- 7. An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
- 8. Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- 9. Disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.
- 10. Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something.
- 11. God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s ...
- 12. God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- 13. Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This... is a precious g ...
- 14. Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
- 15. If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the pap ...
- 16. In song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in ...
- 17. It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards wh ...
- 18. Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and ...
- 19. Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
- 20. Love is being stupid together.
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