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Famous Paul Valery Quotes
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
“A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.”
“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
“A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.”
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”
“Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.”
“A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.”
“Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.”
“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.”
“My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.”
“Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.”
“To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.”
“My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!”