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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Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Paul Valery

Inspirational, Differences, Mutual

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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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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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Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

Paul Valery

Important, Emotion

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

Paul Valery

Dream, Silence, Triumph

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

Paul Valery

Photography, Names, Vision

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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Paul Valery

Order, Two, World

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We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Paul Valery

Dread

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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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Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

Paul Valery

Thinking, Sometimes

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

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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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Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

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Rights, Society, Moments

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Politeness is organized indifference.

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Indifference, Politeness, Organized

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

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The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

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Used, Used To Be

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History is the science of what never happens twice.

Paul Valery

Happens

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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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What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Paul Valery

Simple, Complicated, Understood

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We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Paul Valery

Courage, Long, Needs

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

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Advantage, Freshness, Loses

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Power without abuse loses its charm.

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Abuse, Charm, Loses

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Born: October 30, 1871
Died: July 20, 1945
Occupation: Poet
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