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

Paul Valéry


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

Paul Valéry

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

Paul Valéry


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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.

Paul Valéry


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

Paul Valéry


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

Paul Valéry

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

Paul Valéry


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Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Paul Valéry

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Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.

Paul Valéry


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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Paul Valéry

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