Memorable Quotes and quotations from Paul ValeryPaul Valery French critic & poet (1871 - 1945)Paul Valery - - Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. Paul Valery - Tel Quel 2 (1943) - Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. Paul Valery - - The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery - 1895 - 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 Valery - - ...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. Paul Valery - - Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery - - Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery - - God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery - - That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery - - Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery - - The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery - - 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 Valery - - Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. Paul Valery - - The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery - - A poem is never finished, 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 painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen. Paul Valery - - A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. Paul Valery - - What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Paul Valery - - God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. |
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