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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. — Paul Valery

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal. — Paul Valery

What is simple is false and what is not is useless. — Paul Valery

Poems are never finished - just abandoned — Paul Valery

O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed! — Paul Valery

Politeness is organized indifference. — Paul Valery

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever. — Paul Valery

Toward an eternal aspiration for vague things. — Valery Larbaud

Death was not a door you could open and close at will. — Valery G. Olsen

The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education. — Paul Valery

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one. — 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

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means. — Paul Valery

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself. — Stephen Spender

Let's be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected. — Valery Giscard D'Estaing

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery

History is the science of what never happens twice. — Paul Valery

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker. — Paul Valery

There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography. — Paul Valery

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. — Paul Valery

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences. — Paul Valery

The universe is a flaw in the purity of non-being. — Paul Valery

The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar — Paul Valery

Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated — Paul Valery

Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic. — Paul Valery

I have my hair done by Valery Joseph, who does a version of the Palm Beach crash helmet so that it doesn't move. — Marjorie Gubelmann

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. — Paul Valery

Every man expects some miracle - either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. — Paul Valery

How can one not feel enthusiasm for the man who never said anything vague? — Paul Valery

But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind. — Paul Valery

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. — Paul Valery

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices — Paul Valery

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself. — Paul Valery

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. — Paul Valery

Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable. — Paul Valery

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds — Paul Valery

Love is acting stupid together. — Paul Valery

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging — Valery Giscard D'Estaing

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. — Paul Valery

All that we know, that is, all we have the power to do, has finally turned against what we are. — Paul Valery

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. — Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. — Paul Valery

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned. — 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

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning. — Paul Valery

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. — Paul Valery

Nothing beautiful can be summarized. — Paul Valery

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am . — Paul Valery

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up. — Paul Valery

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. — Paul Valery

I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right. — Paul Valery

Conscience reigns but it does not govern. — Paul Valery

At times I think and at times I am. — Paul Valery

No one is intimidated by logic, except logicians. — Paul Valery

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — 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

An alone man is always badly accompanied. — Paul Valery

Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language. — Paul Valery

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. — Paul Valery

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair. — Paul Valery

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad. — Paul Valery

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. — Paul Valery

Science is a collection of successful recipes. — Paul Valery

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

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. — Paul Valery

At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind. — Paul Valery

Everything changes but the avant-garde. — Paul Valery

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary. — Paul Valery

Stupidity is not my strong point. — Paul Valery

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more. — Paul Valery

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. — Paul Valery

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. — Paul Valery

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery

Sometime I think; and sometime I am. — Paul Valery

To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art. — 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

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth. — Paul Valery

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key. — Paul Valery

We hope vaguely but dread precisely. — Paul Valery

But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something? ... Can he ever remain solitary with himself
and silent to his very soul! — 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

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants. — Paul Valery

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth. — Paul Valery

Life blackens at the contact of truth. — Paul Valery

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

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing. — Paul Valery

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. — Paul Valery

Cognition reigns but does not rule. — Paul Valery

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time. — Paul Valery

Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap. — Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm. — Paul Valery

Stupidity is not my strong suit. — Paul Valery

To live means to lack something at every moment — Paul Valery

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view. — Paul Valery

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. — Paul Valery

The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so. — Paul Valery

The wind is rising... we must attempt to live. — Paul Valery

A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones. — Paul Valery

Taste is made of a thousand distastes — Paul Valery