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Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Writer
Cette
Paul Ambroise Valéry
Paul Ambroise Valery
Paul-Ambroise Valéry
Paul Valery
Paul-Ambroise Valery
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Never
More quotes by Paul Valery
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
Paul Valery
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Paul Valery
If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.
Paul Valery
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.
Paul Valery
A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.
Paul Valery
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
Paul Valery
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Paul Valery
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
Paul Valery
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Paul Valery
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valery
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.
Paul Valery
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.
Paul Valery
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?
Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery