The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul ValéryMy hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.
Paul ValéryTags: matrix
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Paul ValéryTags: observation
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
Paul ValéryTags: poetry
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 ValéryTags: inspirational writing creativity
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
Paul ValéryCe qui n'est pas ineffable n'a aucune importance.
Paul ValéryThere is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.
Paul ValéryUne philosophie doit etre portative.
Paul ValéryTags: philosophy portable
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
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