Paul Valery Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

  Paul Valery

  Thinking, Sometimes

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• It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Relationship, Distance

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

  Paul Valery

  Light, Bird, Should

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• Power without abuse loses its charm.

  Paul Valery

  Abuse, Charm, Loses

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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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• Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

  Paul Valery

  Book, Animal, Fire

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• A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

  Paul Valery

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

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• to live means to lack something at every moment

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Moments

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• Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Ideas, Doing Nothing

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

  Paul Valery

  Light, Mindfulness, Sun

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

  Paul Valery

  Simple, Complicated, Understood

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• A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Vocabulary, Mind

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• If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

  Paul Valery

  Love You, Ego, Hateful

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• My poems mean what people take them to mean.

  Paul Valery

  Mean, People

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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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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandon, Artist

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• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

  Paul Valery

  Beautiful, Writing, Doe

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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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