You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite duration has the subsistence and eternity of a smoke-ring.
Paul ValéryModern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated
Paul ValéryThe stranger’s way of looking at things, the eye of a man who does not recognize, who is beyond this world, the eye as frontier between being
Paul ValéryLa meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller.
Paul ValéryThe purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul ValéryTags: psychology
For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.
Paul ValéryTags: mind creative-process disorder
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Paul ValéryTags: writing work transformation incompleteness weariness
Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre!
L'air immense ouvre et referme mon livre,
La vague en poudre ose jaillir des rocs!
Envolez-vous, pages tout éblouies!
Rompez, vagues! Rompez d'eaux réjouies
Ce toit tranquille où picoraient des focs!
Lo más profundo del hombre es la piel.
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