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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• 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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• Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Differences, Mutual

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

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Silence, Triumph

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• Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

  Paul Valery

  Beauty, Beautiful

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• Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

  Paul Valery

  Real, Boredom, People

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• We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

  Paul Valery

  Dread

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• Love is being stupid together.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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

  Paul Valery

  Important, Emotion

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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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• 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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• History is the science of what never happens twice.

  Paul Valery

  Happens

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

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, World

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• Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Profound, Details

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• Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Business, People

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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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• Power without abuse loses its charm.

  Paul Valery

  Abuse, Charm, Loses

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• to live means to lack something at every moment

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Moments

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

  Paul Valery

  Advice, Traps, Bounds

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