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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
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Paul-Ambroise Valery
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
Paul Valery
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.
Paul Valery
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery
The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.
Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
Everything changes but the avant-garde.
Paul Valery
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Paul Valery
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Paul Valery
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Paul Valery
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
Paul Valery
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Paul Valery
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.
Paul Valery
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valery
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
Paul Valery
Stupidity is not my strong suit.
Paul Valery
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery
Science is a collection of successful recipes.
Paul Valery