Paul Valery Quotes

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• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  War, People, Poetry

  Bizarre, issues 24-31, (p. 102), 1962.

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• Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

  Paul Valery

  Advice, Traps, Bounds

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• There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life:
  1) To produce them or
  2) To plunder them.
  When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Two, Together

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• Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Differences, Mutual

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

  Paul Valery

  Time, Future, Trouble

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Silence, Triumph

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• Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

  Paul Valery

  Important, Emotion

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• Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

  Paul Valery

  Beauty, Beautiful

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, World

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• Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

  Paul Valery

  Thinking, Sometimes

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• Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Equality, People

  Regards sur le Monde Actuel (1931)

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• To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

  Paul Valery

  Mind, Teeth, Needs

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• We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

  Paul Valery

  Dread

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• The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

  Paul Valery

  Advantage, Freshness, Loses

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• To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Names, Vision

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• An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

  Paul Valery

  Stupid, Intelligent, Want

  "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.

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• A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

  Paul Valery

  Loss, Men, Lost Friendship

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• Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Reality, Judging

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• An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Mind, Growing

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• Politeness is organized indifference.

  Paul Valery

  Indifference, Politeness, Organized

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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• A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

  Paul Valery

  Reality, Men, Keeping Secrets

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• Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

  Paul Valery

  Dance, Journey, Hiking

  Talk on BBC Radio, January 13, 1976.

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• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

  Paul Valery

  Ideas, People, Serious

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