Paul Valery Quotes

• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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• Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which concern them.

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• A poem is never finished; it is always an accident that puts a stop to it, that gives it to the public.

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• Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

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• What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

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• Poems are never finished – just abandoned.

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• The only way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

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• We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

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• 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.

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• Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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• To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

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• The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

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• The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

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• The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

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• That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

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• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

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• Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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• Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

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• Power without abuse loses its charm.

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• Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

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Paul Valery (43)

Birth:	30th October, 1871
Death:	20th July, 1945
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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