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Paul Valery
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Paul Valery
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: October 30
Died: 1945
Died: July 20
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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
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Paul Valery
The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.
Paul Valery
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.
Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
to live means to lack something at every moment
Paul Valery
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Paul Valery
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.
Paul Valery
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery
Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
Paul Valery
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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
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
We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
Paul Valery
Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
Paul Valery
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery
Stupidity is not my strong suit.
Paul Valery
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
Paul Valery
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Paul Valery
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery