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Famous Paul Valery Quotes
“Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.”
“Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?”
“Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds”
“Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.”
“The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.”
“The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices”
“Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.”
“That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.”
“All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.”
“Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.”
“The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.”
“There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.”
“If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.”
“An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.”
“If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order.”