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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• Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Differences, Mutual

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

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Silence, Triumph

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

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Names, Vision

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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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• Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

  Paul Valery

  Beauty, Beautiful

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

  Paul Valery

  Important, Emotion

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

  Paul Valery

  Rights, Society, Moments

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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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• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Years, Long

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• It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

  Paul Valery

  Small Numbers, Soul, Use

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

  Paul Valery

  Simple, Complicated, Understood

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

  Paul Valery

  Mind, Teeth, Needs

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• Politeness is organized indifference.

  Paul Valery

  Indifference, Politeness, Organized

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

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• We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

  Paul Valery

  Dread

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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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• One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

  Paul Valery

  Light, Bird, Should

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• A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

  Paul Valery

  Light, Mindfulness, Sun

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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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